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- Thu Oct 24, 2013 6:52 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Is Jesus birth backdated 70 years from the Temple destructio
- Replies: 25
- Views: 45729
Re: Is Jesus birth backdated 70 years from the Temple destru
Thank you solstice for this interesting post. I know, and understand, nothing about numerology. I know even less about Judaism. In fact, I have no idea what you mean, when you employ, as a supposed English word, midrash : that Mark and the other gospels are midrash I know what milkshakes are. I know...
- Thu Oct 24, 2013 6:19 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Syriac Manichaean Fragments
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9859
Re: Syriac Manichaean Fragments
I wonder if anyone has investigated the twine illustrated in the photograph. It looks of "recent" vintage, i.e. past few decades. Biological twine, (hemp, for example) does not have a multi century lifespan, unless protected from sunlight, moisture, and oxygen. What is the purpose of the t...
- Wed Oct 23, 2013 2:53 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Manuscript evidence
- Replies: 30
- Views: 54507
Re: Manuscript evidence
spin offered a reference to Don Barker's research. Here's a link to this lovely article, cited by spin above. http://people.uncw.edu/zervosg/Papyrology/barker%20dating%20new%20testament%20papyri.pdf The provenance of P52 is unknown. This scrap of papyrus was purchased, in the open air market, in Egy...
- Wed Oct 23, 2013 11:22 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Propaganda War Against Mythicism [Vridar]
- Replies: 52
- Views: 87218
Re: The Propaganda War Against Mythicism [Vridar]
Perhaps I err, Duvduv, but I think you may have misunderstood, else I have made the mistake. There is no argument, of which I am aware, that in ancient times, ordinary folks believed in a "mythical" Jesus, anymore than they believed in a "mythical" Hercules, or a "mythical&q...
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 3:19 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: evidence for Christianity before the third Roman Jewish conflict
- Replies: 106
- Views: 110180
Re: evidence for Christianity before the third Roman Jewish
I also look forward to any more exact citation and context for the quotation attributed here to Epictetus. http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html #50 Sorry, my fault... Context: It is unclear to me whether or not this work genuinely represents a composition by Epictetus, or if it is instea...
- Fri Oct 18, 2013 12:06 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: evidence for Christianity before the third Roman Jewish conflict
- Replies: 106
- Views: 110180
Re: evidence for Christianity before the third Roman Jewish
You might be aware that Epictetus mentions Christians from around 110 A.D. He taught at Nicopolis, the place where Titus mentions there being a Christian community. If you have Christians there at this date you must surely date the Christian movement's beginning several decades before. andrewcriddl...
- Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:31 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: evidence for Christianity before the third Roman Jewish conflict
- Replies: 106
- Views: 110180
Re: evidence for Christianity before the third Roman Jewish
It has already been proven that the letter was an E by ultra-violet light. You did not prove it. You reported what others proved. a. That's not the issue, spin. No one cares whether or not dewitness reported it, or proved it. (He certainly never implied, or suggested, that he had himself, personall...
- Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:34 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Pauline Gospel was a Late Invention
- Replies: 126
- Views: 160630
Re: The Pauline Gospel was a Late Invention
Origen has admitted that the Fourteen Epistles--the Pauline Corpus and the Epistle to the Hebrews were composed after the Gospels, after Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles of Peter, James, John, Jude and the Apocalypse of John. Can you explain to those who do not know the answer (i.e. maybe only me...
- Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:18 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: evidence for Christianity before the third Roman Jewish conflict
- Replies: 106
- Views: 110180
Re: evidence for Christianity before the third Roman Jewish
You might be aware that Epictetus mentions Christians from around 110 A.D. You may not be aware, hanery, that I am not aware of very much at all, but I am especially uninformed regarding Epictetus. The best information about him, that I have been able to uncover, suggests, contrarily that he wrote ...
- Wed Oct 16, 2013 5:43 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: evidence for Christianity before the third Roman Jewish conflict
- Replies: 106
- Views: 110180
Re: More of the same
This litany of non sequiturs is stunning. I'm getting to like the Markov-chain idea more and more. It is a random process usually characterized as memory less: the next state depends only on the current state and not on the sequence of events that preceded it There is nothing random about the comme...