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- Tue Oct 29, 2013 8:01 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Ethnarch of King Aretas? the legendary Damascus basket case
- Replies: 250
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Re: Ethnarch of King Aretas? the legendary Damascus basket c
If Damascus was supposed to be a part of Aretas' kingdom (regardless of whether is was Aretas III or IV) WHY THE HELL WOULD HE NEED AN ETHNARCH to run things there! Think about it for god's sake. The Nabatean residents, which all the literature and archaeology show were extremely numerous in all pol...
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 7:45 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Ethnarch of King Aretas? the legendary Damascus basket case
- Replies: 250
- Views: 252490
Re: Ethnarch of King Aretas? the legendary Damascus basket c
If it is unpublished, how can I check the subject index? Regardless of whether you agree with her conclusion about the end of Pilate's governorship (Passover 36 CE or Passover 37 CE), there is nothing in the section on the tetrarch Philip or on Agrippa I to even suggest that either of them had any c...
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 4:33 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Erastus inscription
- Replies: 17
- Views: 29897
Re: Erastus inscription
Isn't "aedile" that sultry sounding female singer from the UK?
I like her sound, but the local grocery store plays a Muzak tape of her music non-stop and I'm frankly sick of hearing it.
DCH
I like her sound, but the local grocery store plays a Muzak tape of her music non-stop and I'm frankly sick of hearing it.
DCH
Bernard Muller wrote:What is "aedile"? What is "oikonomos"?
Cordially, Bernard
- Mon Oct 28, 2013 10:57 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Ethnarch of King Aretas? the legendary Damascus basket case
- Replies: 250
- Views: 252490
Re: Ethnarch of King Aretas? the legendary Damascus basket c
I'm not sure what all the hoop-de-do is about with the "Ethnarch under Aretas" at Damascus. Did not Alexandria have ethnarchs, and not just for the Jewish inhabitants? Strabo, in his Geography, says: XVII the Romans have, to the best of their ability, I might say, set most things right, ha...
- Tue Oct 22, 2013 3:02 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: When do the expanded forms Jesus, Christ, Chrest 1st appear?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 35768
Re: When do the expanded forms Jesus, Christ, Chrest 1st app
I thought that I had researched this correctly when I had posted that, but now I cannot replicate the result in KALOS Greek software. Damn pain medication! I am completely unable to hold two thoughts together at the moment. I guess the fact should remain that the papyrus actually has the spelling χρ...
- Mon Oct 21, 2013 5:58 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: When do the expanded forms Jesus, Christ, Chrest 1st appear?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 35768
Re: When do the expanded forms Jesus, Christ, Chrest 1st app
Don't need to propose a misspelled "Christian:" χρησιανὸν, the nominative masculine singular form of the substantive χρήστης: I. One who gives or expounds oracles, a prophet, soothsayer II a creditor, usurer, lender, or debtor in a middle/passive verbal form. DCH Order to arrest a Chrestia...
- Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:16 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Volunteer needed for proofreading the Latin of Irenaeus
- Replies: 15
- Views: 64369
Re: Volunteer needed for proofreading the Latin of Irenaeus
Looks like Latin (as well as Greek) does have specific words for "Yes" or "No." However, classical quality authors weren't known for their dull prose. They developed many ways to "artfully" imply "Yes" or "No" by other means. LATIN (CASSELL'S NEW LAT...
- Sat Oct 19, 2013 7:13 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: A Table of Christological Titles in Early Christian Writings
- Replies: 17
- Views: 31869
Re: A Table of Christological Titles in Early Christian Writ
To be really useful, the table would have to provide more detail (such as number of occurrences). Also, I'll have to assume that you did a search on the terms using English translations. In ancient Greek, the word order alone doesn't dictate what the translation may come out as. In the long term, so...
- Tue Oct 15, 2013 1:04 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: book of enoch
- Replies: 16
- Views: 39384
Re: book of enoch
No offense, but a bit of formatting and standardized punctuation would really help us figure out what is being said. DCH Richard Allan Ritter. You write that the Book of Enoch was "...a great favorite in the Christian Church..." "...many of the Fathers use it without hesitation as the...
- Sun Oct 13, 2013 6:15 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did Celsus Read Irenaeus or Irenaeus Celsus?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11176
Re: Did Celsus Read Irenaeus or Irenaeus Celsus?
Eh? The "fragment" Stanton speaks of above is the Muratorian Fragment. I do not know how the above is supposed to bolster the possibility that Celsus had read Irenaeus or vice versa. A while back I had segregated the words of Celsus and Origen's summarizations of other points Celsus had ma...