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- Tue Nov 01, 2016 1:03 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- Replies: 39
- Views: 32870
Re: Church of the Holy Sepulchre
I'm interested in how far back the tradition goes so if it goes no further back than Helena's claims, that would be significant to me. If it goes further back than I see those claims as largely if not completely irrelevant. Our earliest account is Eusebius Life of Constantine it appears to imply th...
- Tue Nov 01, 2016 12:33 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The evolution of christian cultic vocabulary
- Replies: 65
- Views: 21376
Re: The evolution of christian cultic vocabulary
One example may be DIAKONOS which originally meant a helper or servant but which becomes a technical term for a Christian official. In some NT passages it is disputed which of these meanings is involved.
Andrew Criddle
Andrew Criddle
- Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:41 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Richard Carrier: Science Education in the Early Roman Empire
- Replies: 20
- Views: 39187
Re: Richard Carrier: Science Education in the Early Roman Em
One issue is that doing Science (producing new scientific results) as distinct from learning the established wisdom seems to come to almost a full stop before 200 CE. This is probably too early to blame Christianity. One possible factor in the 3rd century and later is the hostility of the developing...
- Sat Oct 22, 2016 5:04 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Jacob Neusner RIP
- Replies: 105
- Views: 59759
Re: Jacob Neusner RIP
1) Yes, as Andrew noted, the lines on the first page--28 lines--and the lines on the second page--26 lines--compare in a way such that mastara use "does not seem to be true." 2) And prior to that is the question whether a mastara was typically used on an already-bound book. (In this case ...
- Sat Oct 22, 2016 4:49 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: arguments for/against eusebius' reliability
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3375
Re: arguments for/against eusebius' reliability
Eusebius' reliability was brought up in a different thread (or countless different threads) What are the most convincing reasons for doubting the veracity of the "church history" recorded by Eusebius? I guess at the same time, what are the weaknesses in the argumentation around doubting t...
- Sat Oct 22, 2016 4:25 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Jacob Neusner RIP
- Replies: 105
- Views: 59759
Re: Jacob Neusner RIP
I'm not an expert here at all. But if a mastara was used it would IIUC leave marks that would be apparent on both sides of a page with the one ruling serving as a guide for writing on both sides. In this case one would expect the lines of writing on the first of the three pages to coincide with the ...
- Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:13 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Jacob Neusner RIP
- Replies: 105
- Views: 59759
Re: Jacob Neusner RIP
The paper that shook the world of scholarship in 1984 (the year Quesnell and Smith almost met in Jerusalem) https://www.jstor.org/stable/602175?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Lieberman died in an airplane crash a few weeks later. Lieberman actually died in March 1983 (on an airplane but not IIUC in a...
- Fri Oct 14, 2016 12:45 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Jacob Neusner RIP
- Replies: 105
- Views: 59759
Re: Jacob Neusner RIP
The paper that shook the world of scholarship in 1984 (the year Quesnell and Smith almost met in Jerusalem) https://www.jstor.org/stable/602175?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Lieberman died in an airplane crash a few weeks later. Lieberman actually died in March 1983 (on an airplane but not IIUC in a...
- Wed Oct 12, 2016 11:12 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Jacob Neusner RIP
- Replies: 105
- Views: 59759
Jacob Neusner RIP
Jewish scholar Jacob Neusner died on Saturday
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 10,00.html
Andrew Criddle
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 10,00.html
Andrew Criddle
- Sat Oct 08, 2016 6:25 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A simple question about Bible manuscript variants
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11672