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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
- Replies: 28
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Re: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
Put this together with the suspiciously round number of 7 epistles in the earliest collections, and perhaps we can conclude that making up fake letters by Paul has been a thing since the earliest collections we know anything about. I can suggest that Ephesians, when added to the archetype (= from w...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:29 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: How should the “rollercoaster” phrase in Romans 10:6-8 be understood?
- Replies: 7
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Re: How should the “rollercoaster” phrase in Romans 10:6-8 be understood?
Paul, or those writing under his name, is interpreting Deuteronomy 30 here in the light of his own belief. If the life giving Law is not too hard to bear or grasp (Deut. 30:11 "Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach") and if Christ is the end ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:36 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Marcion’s Gospel and the New Testament: Catalyst or Consequence?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 648
Re: Marcion’s Gospel and the New Testament: Catalyst or Consequence?
That's a problem isn't it? A bias against the boring if you will.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:33 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Marcion’s Gospel and the New Testament: Catalyst or Consequence?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 648
Re: Marcion’s Gospel and the New Testament: Catalyst or Consequence?
If the Marcionite Gospel is seen as an alteration of Luke, it has almost no relevance for the New Testament ... On the other hand, the priority of the Marcionite Gospel promotes the most noble and important task of scholarship: it poses a whole new set of questions that did not exist before. And if...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Marcion’s Gospel and the New Testament: Catalyst or Consequence?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 648
Re: back to the drawing board? the missing sondergut Marcion
Oof.maryhelena wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:42 pm I recently paid £21 for this article - of just 6 pages. I had thought I was getting the three articles for this price. The other two articles being by Jason Beduhn and Judith Lieu.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:36 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: back to the drawing board? the missing sondergut Marcion
- Replies: 37
- Views: 630
Re: back to the drawing board? the missing sondergut Marcion
One reason that I haven't already just gone with (1)/(3) is that I'm not sure we have a good catalog of non-Luke that could be in Marcion's gospel. Prior scholarship generally takes the Gospel of Luke as a "map in hand" with which to discover the context of references to Marcion's gospel. ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: back to the drawing board? the missing sondergut Marcion
- Replies: 37
- Views: 630
back to the drawing board? the missing sondergut Marcion
As some know, I have been exploring the idea that Marcion's gospel wasn't nearly as close to a twin of Luke as people think. And since people often think it's a pretty close twin in most respects, that's low hanging fruit really. The evidence prompting a re-evaluation on this point includes the Matt...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:24 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
- Replies: 28
- Views: 712
Re: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
Asia Minor could be the location of the collection with Ephesians. Someone with money and an affinity for Paul are simple, plausible assumptions. There's more unknown about history than is known. Overdetermining the identity of the publisher here is not necessarily helpful.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:13 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
- Replies: 28
- Views: 712
Re: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
Where were these three fakes added? Colossians + the other seven could have been written by Paul. Things like 2 Cor may have been properly split up at this point. Ephesians could have been written in the first century with access to those 8, and that edition became the archetype (from which all Pau...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:45 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 860
Re: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
The Christ that Harnack sees, looking back through nineteen centuries of Catholic darkness, is only the reflection of a Liberal Protestant face, seen at the bottom of a deep well. (George Tyrrell, Christianity at the Crossroads (London and New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1909), 44) Not just Harnac...