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by Charles Wilson
Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:45 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: MARKed - astonishing text variants
Replies: 99
Views: 78227

Re: MARKed - astonishing text variants

Rambling mode, off ... You're not rambling at all and quite on point. The use of the word "charcoal" is odd given the contexts. Both instances in the Gospels occur in John. John 18: 18 (RSV): [18] Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were s...
by Charles Wilson
Thu Oct 06, 2016 6:54 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Cross and destruction of the Temple in one breath
Replies: 11
Views: 6402

Re: Cross and destruction of the Temple in one breath

Agreed, for the most part, and this is why one-size-fits-all solutions are generally so unsatisfying. They very accurately notice that something in the gospel record seems to hail, say, from an incident under Archelaus (for example), but then they try to fit the rest of the gospel record into that ...
by Charles Wilson
Thu Sep 29, 2016 7:50 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: TACITUS euhemerized Jesus according to Couchoud
Replies: 46
Views: 22836

Re: TACITUS euhemerized Jesus according to Couchoud

In 111 Pliny the Younger, after cross-examining the Christians of Bithynia and Pontus, had no notion that their Christ was a real character. According to them, he reported to Trajan, on a certain day (surely Sunday) they assembled before dawn and chanted a hymn to the god Christ, those on the one p...
by Charles Wilson
Wed Sep 28, 2016 9:52 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The pathetic effort to make Pilate the archon of THIS aeon
Replies: 31
Views: 20430

Re: The pathetic effort to make Pilate the archon of THIS ae

There are a number of Nero Stories in the NT and this is one of them. This is at the end of the Julio-Claudian Line. John 8: 44 (RSV): [44] You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, beca...
by Charles Wilson
Tue Sep 27, 2016 9:00 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Archelaus in the Epistula Apostolorum
Replies: 17
Views: 5540

Re: Archelaus in the Epistula Apostolorum

Of Nicholas of Damascus, https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_14822.html : "Nicholas' Universal History provided the basis of Josephus' description of Herod's kingdom in The Jewish War (book 1) and Antiquities (books 15–17). As is to be expected from a courtier ...
by Charles Wilson
Mon Sep 26, 2016 8:09 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Archelaus in the Epistula Apostolorum
Replies: 17
Views: 5540

Re: Archelaus in the Epistula Apostolorum

Thank you, Ben and Andrew.
Mebbe more later.

CW
by Charles Wilson
Mon Sep 26, 2016 2:02 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Pilate's tenure - did it begin AD 18 or 26?
Replies: 21
Views: 13606

Re: Pilate's tenure - did it begin AD 18 or 26?

Pilate was not the only one who was sent marked, "Return to Sender". This is (I believe) at the crucial Passover of 9 CE, where the Priests who were saved, along with Peter, thought they could finish the job started 12 years earlier a week after Herod's death: Pilate was pensioned off. Jos...
by Charles Wilson
Mon Sep 26, 2016 8:31 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Archelaus in the Epistula Apostolorum
Replies: 17
Views: 5540

Archelaus in the Epistula Apostolorum

Concerning whom we testify that the Lord is he who was crucified by Pontius Pilate and Archelaus between the two thieves Will some reasonable person out there please tell me what ARCHELAUS is doing in this quote? "...who was crucified by Pontius Pilate and Archelaus ..." Snarks out there ...
by Charles Wilson
Sat Sep 24, 2016 10:21 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Another Idiom in John?
Replies: 0
Views: 1897

Another Idiom in John?

John gives evidence of an idiom in the discussion with Nicodemus: John 3: 2 - 3 (RSV): [2] This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him." [3] Jesus answered him, &quo...
by Charles Wilson
Fri Sep 23, 2016 5:45 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is 1 Cor 11:23-27 an Interpolation? (split)
Replies: 153
Views: 76115

Re: Is 1 Cor 11:23-27 an Interpolation? (split)

a/ Luke and 1 Corinthians both originally written without the Eucharistic passage. b/ Eucharistic passage added to Luke c/ 1 Corinthians 11:23-237 added under the influence of interpolated Luke. d/ 1 Corinthians 11:23-27 is found in all known manuscripts and relevant citations of 1 Corinthians. I a...