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Several times in the past, both here and @ FRDB, I have attempted to get a discussion going about Mark D. Nano's views on Paul and his relationship with Judaism in general. Unlike me, Mark does not use "Judean" to refer to "Jews" of Paul's period, but he is a wonderful writer jus...

15 In those days Peter stood up among the believers ( a group numbering about a hundred and twenty ) 16 and said, “Brothers and sisters,[a] the Scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through David concerning Judas, who served as guide for those who arrested Jesus. 17 ...

On the subject of rhetoric in general, some Rhetorical "Handbooks" from antiquity: Aristotle (fl. 384 – 322 BC, Greek): Ῥητορική = Ars Rhetorica, "The 'Art' of Rhetoric" [trans. J. H. Freese, LCL 193, London: Heinemann, 1926] The Rhetoric consists of three books. Book I offers a ...

Just for the hell of it, and because I already had this in a spreadsheet: Betz [/b] Brinsmead [/b] Kennedy [/b] Standaert [/b] Hall [/b] Smit [/b] Longenecker [/b] Hester [/b] Russell [/b] 1.1-5: epistolary prescript 1.1-5: epistolary prescript 1.1-5: salutation 1.1-5: intro-duction épistolaire 1.1-...

Chimps believe in evolution. The chimps I hang out with at this bar called "The Zoo" bristle at any suggestion that Humans & Simians share common ancestors. When it is brought up, they rip your face off. :facepalm: Actually, what the sticks they throw at the tree hollow signifies is t...

I'll simply add that I think that Josephus was pretty sure that the temple would be rebuilt, perhaps in his lifetime, under Roman oversight. There were still many Herodian princes laying about to tap if a king or tetrarch were required.

"An interpolator who was blaming "those Jews" for their dastardliness, suggesting strongly that the interpolator was not a Judean." What about Josephus? He mentions "the Jews" throughout his writings, including in a negative light, e.g., those on Masada: "...the w...

DCH wrote: "It probably doesn't help to use modern terminology (i.e., "Jews") when interpreting Paul here." Whatever it may mean, it is used in 1 Thess. 2:14 and 2 Cor. 11:24. The point was that the way the passage reads in the original Greek, we could have either 1) A genuine P...

Giuseppe wrote (regarding the reference in 1 Thess 2:15-16 to "the Jews" killing Jesus): "proto-Catholic anti-Jewish interpolation." But Paul says the same thing about himself in 2 Cor. 11 (at least in regards to the abuse he suffered). Is that also an anti-Jewish interpolation ...

Ante Nicene Fathers, tr. by Alexander Roberts [this translation breaks the text into sections based on Massuet's edition] [/b] Greek fragments (scanned from Harvey's edition, available online) [/b] Latin Text in Harvey's edition, (hopefully all errors caught). Numbers in Brackets represent page num...