Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

And things from Acts count as history? For you?

I think the best argument for historicism is that it's the simplest explanation for the evidence. With that said the best argument against historicism IMHO is that the material in our canon was not pristinely preserved. The texts themselves were chosen, the texts themselves were arranged into a cano...

There are documents which suggest that Paul met Seneca. Correspondences survive between the two men. There are Patristic witnesses who say this actually happened. Must be true.

I date Captain America's battles with Red Skull between 1941 - 1945 based on the internal evidence of the surviving literature associated with him.

So let's grant Ben's argument that Against Praxean is essentially about a 'different sort' of adoptionism than what scholars suppose was associated with the Gospel of Mark. But how was the Gospel of Mark read in antiquity? I don't think we have any actual evidence outside of assumptions developed fr...

... adding to it's historical credibility

I have to admit I've never spent a lot of time thinking about the baptism narrative(s). It is worth noting that nowhere does the name 'Christ' appear. The purpose is to (literally) announce Jesus as the Son. The temptation by the Devil is centrally focused again on whether or not Jesus 'really' is t...

It is worth asking though at what point Romans became aware that Christians were a distinct people. For instance, in modern parlance, a whole host of subcategories have emerged among the LGBTQ (I don't even know if I have included all the appropriate initials). They were likely simply referred to as...

It is worth noting that the discussion where this reference to the 'tube' appears in Porphyry immediately after raising the question whether or not the soul enters the womb with the sperm or after. Indeed the implication of this anonymous cited opinion in Ad Garum seems to have very significant impl...

Irenaeus, Adversus haereses, 1.7.2 I find this position fascinating because (as I note in a previous thread) it squares with the radical monarchian view of the heretic described in Tertullian's Against Praxean. The idea here seems to be that not only were there two powers - Jesus and Christ correspo...