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- Thu May 07, 2015 4:23 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A Marcionite Antithesis behind Jesus Bar-Abbas?
- Replies: 69
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Re: A Marcionite Antithesis behind Jesus Bar-Abbas?
Indeed, both Mcn and Mark lack the birth story, they are much shorter than all the others, have fewer oracles, but instead deeds of the Lord: these similiarities between them require an explanation. What explanation is being proposed? Honestly, as I've said before in this thread already, I know too...
- Thu May 07, 2015 3:56 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Scapegoat Sacrifice and the Crucifixion
- Replies: 95
- Views: 44088
Re: Scapegoat Sacrifice and the Crucifixion
Historism finds itself in a similar difficulty when its apologists try to argue that it is 'possible' or even likely that Jews could have accepted a man (= Jesus) as a God. Perhaps I should similarly label this 'white historicism.' Nevertheless white mythicists love to exploit implausible or unlike...
- Thu May 07, 2015 3:18 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Josephus' TF the source for Tacitus' reference to Jesus?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 32403
Re: Josephus' TF the source for Tacitus' reference to Jesus?
The presence in some versions of the TF of phrases like he was believed to be and they reported was what made me think that I was on to something with that kind of triangulation. But now I am not so sure. Incidentally this ties in to what I was saying about Tacitus and his naive pagan use of the wo...
- Thu May 07, 2015 3:11 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Gospel of Mark and Propp's Morphology
- Replies: 40
- Views: 25207
Re: Gospel of Mark and Propp's Morphology
Of course what I should clarify for any of us new to this whole morphology thing is that it is not the Russian folktale stories themselves that are being compared but the structures of the narratives. It's as much a study in anthropology as it is in literature, yes? Sure. If anyone is saying that i...
- Thu May 07, 2015 3:02 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A Marcionite Antithesis behind Jesus Bar-Abbas?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 55625
- Thu May 07, 2015 2:45 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Gospel of Mark and Propp's Morphology
- Replies: 40
- Views: 25207
Re: Gospel of Mark and Propp's Morphology
Russian folk-tales potentially have nothing to do with biblical narrative But don't they, potentially ? I think most of us are interested in what you can find and what it might really mean. But all of us should welcome the opportunity to take a step back and ask what has really been uncovered, if a...
- Thu May 07, 2015 1:12 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Scapegoat Sacrifice and the Crucifixion
- Replies: 95
- Views: 44088
Re: Scapegoat Sacrifice and the Crucifixion
It is not a matter of 'contradicting' one passage or another. There are references to Jesus being the Paschal lamb and other references to Jesus being the goat of Yom Kippur. The idea that Jesus' death provides an atonement or reconciliation of humankind with heaven (e.g., Romans 5:10) carries an e...
- Thu May 07, 2015 12:28 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A Marcionite Antithesis behind Jesus Bar-Abbas?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 55625
Re: A Marcionite Antithesis behind Jesus Bar-Abbas?
The idea that even considering Marcionite-primacy is a 'waste of time' (to paraphrase Pete) It should already be clear, but I'll state the obvious: that is not what I said. The only thing I would say is a "waste of time" is any Synoptic solution that doesn't take Mcn into account at all. ...
- Wed May 06, 2015 5:22 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Georges Ory's Jesus Hypothesis
- Replies: 20
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- Wed May 06, 2015 4:39 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Josephus' TF the source for Tacitus' reference to Jesus?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 32403
Re: Josephus' TF the source for Tacitus' reference to Jesus?
Okay well maybe it isn't completely silly. YMMV.Ben C. Smith wrote:Yes, your opinion on the matter is clear enough, certainly.Peter Kirby wrote:Yes, well, the whole thing is silly.