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Let me ask the unintriguing DCH is Ignatius an attested name in antiquity? I am unintrigued. Taking the chance that I might sound like Donald Trump waving off one of his gaffs, I never said that Ignatius was a real name. In fact, I have posed my uninformed opinion that the whole thing, short and lo...

Wow! I realize now that Carrier has already the solution to my problem above! He writes: Suetonius could just as easily have confused a report that Christ as a revelatory archangel 'instigated' the riots. Or if 'a belief in' or 'a preaching of' Christ had done so (even if Gospel-based), this, too, ...

How real is Irenaeus? It would be good to work back from extant documents and try to elucidate how we got to them and how real or representative they are. We do have extant documents, mainly a Latin translation and fragments of the Greek (the whole of Book 1 is contained in Epiphanius' Panarion , a...

The death wish [of Ignatius] is one of several similarities between “Ignatius” and Peregrinus. For instance, both loved taking on additional symbolic names. Well, there is only Theophorus as far as I know, and this is only in the introductions, which the ANF translator bracketed as possibly spuriou...

Thanks for the information. It would be great to get a full translation online, but all I really need is the references to the Marcionite gospel and epistles. I have not counted to see how many there are of those... or whether fair use would be violated thereby.... According to the index: Marcion(i...

Okay, all epistles have been posted! Does anyone know where to find an online English translation of the Adamantius Dialogue? (I have no great desire to translate all those references myself....) I'm afraid there isn't one. The 1997 posthumous publication of Robert A. Pretty's 1964 Doctoral Thesis,...

.... are we to think that there was an "ingens multitudo" of chreston sniffers? Have a look at one collation of the literary and epigraphic sources of "Chrestian" [χρηστιανος] and "Christian" [χριστιανος] in Antiquity. http://www.mountainman.com.au/essenes/chrestians%2...

Thanks again, David. The longer and shorter versions seem closer for this one. Yes, there was one extra section in chapter 3, but it was one of the longer version's frequent quotes from scripture, much like the one already included just a little earlier in chapter 3.3, which really didn't require a...

Σύγγνωτέ μοι, I have attached a PDF of my Greek-English comparison of the shorter and longer forms of the epistle of Ignatius to the Romans. Since it is 4:30 in the morning, I have not tried to compare the English renderings to the English translation of the Syriac form of the letter, like I did wit...

Also, I am attaching a copy of the Greek text (unfortunately, not Unicode, but could be recognized by Abby or another OCR program). Pick up the text of interest at page 224 ... (Anonymous) Der Dialog des Adamantius (tr by W. H. van de Sande Bakhuyzen, 1901).pdf This is the book that Greek text came...