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by Ken Olson
Thu Oct 06, 2022 6:16 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Dura Europos
Replies: 103
Views: 7422

Re: Dura Europos

I wish I could find again the article that described that scene as a rescue from a shipwreck scene. For example Clark Hopkins, who discovered the "house church" described the "Healing of the Paralytic" as "a god on a cloud". He also described "Peter and Christ wal...
by Ken Olson
Thu Oct 06, 2022 5:28 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Mark used Q
Replies: 30
Views: 1865

Re: Mark used Q

...Continuing about the prophecy of destruction and reconstruction found in the Logoi but put by Mark on the lips of false witnesses: Can you tell in which "logoi" this can be read? Is that just one of the usual fantastic assertions or is there at least some rational thought behind it? Lo...
by Ken Olson
Thu Oct 06, 2022 4:42 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Dura Europos
Replies: 103
Views: 7422

Re: Dura Europos

For example Clark Hopkins, who discovered the "house church" described the "Healing of the Paralytic" as "a god on a cloud". He also described "Peter and Christ walking on water" as a "Shipwreck scene". Could you give a citation for where Clark Hopk...
by Ken Olson
Tue Oct 04, 2022 9:32 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Matthean posteriority: Mark's "Levi son of Alphaeus"
Replies: 39
Views: 5841

Re: Matthean posteriority: Mark's "Levi son of Alphaeus"

If we read Mark's reference in the context of his word-play with other names (personal and topographical) then we might well think that our author is in some way playing with his readers: Levi is the name of the tribe that was called aside to "join" Israel to God. But here the Levi is &qu...
by Ken Olson
Mon Oct 03, 2022 8:54 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Mark used Q
Replies: 30
Views: 1865

Re: Mark used Q

Van Dore concluded that even though, when compared in isolation, none of the units that comprise the clusters unambiguously reveals evidence of Mark's retention of Q's redaction, their similar combinations in Q and Mark require a literary nexys. Furthermore, wherever one can discern the primitivity...
by Ken Olson
Sat Oct 01, 2022 2:54 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: What does Ctus mean?
Replies: 17
Views: 1047

Re: What does Ctus mean?

The article is in Spanish. "Ctus." keeps appearing and it's bugging me. Can somebody help out, please? Tales datos no son únicos. El Cristo Superior figura muchas veces y en idéntico sentido. Es el Sursum Christus, Susum Ctus. , Superior Ctus. , De superioribus Ctus. , In superioribus Ctu...
by Ken Olson
Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:27 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Dura Europos
Replies: 103
Views: 7422

Re: Dura Europos

StephenGoranson wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 5:20 am Again, I ask, how do you, Pete, interpret the painting usually described as Peter attempting to walk on water?
This question seems to remain unanswered.
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Ken
by Ken Olson
Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:38 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: "Pure objectivity" is a myth
Replies: 154
Views: 9970

Re: "Pure objectivity" is a myth

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by Ken Olson
Thu Sep 29, 2022 6:11 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Relationship of gLuke, gMarcion and Acts
Replies: 28
Views: 2575

Re: Relationship of gLuke, gMarcion and Acts

The Journal of Greco-Roman Judaism and Christianity has started posting downloadable articles for it's 2022 volume. This paper may be of interest: Michael Kok - Justin Martyr and the Authorship of Luke's Gospel - JGRChJ 18 2022 http://www.jgrchj.net/volume18/?page=volume18 Just found it this morning...
by Ken Olson
Wed Sep 28, 2022 5:45 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Dura Europos
Replies: 103
Views: 7422

Re: Dura Europos

The Excavations at Dura-Europos 5th Season 1931-1932 (1934) edited by M.I. Rostovtzeff is online here (and downloadable): https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.283179/page/n253/mode/2up The contributions of C. Hopkins (p.238) on the church and inscriptions and P.V.C. Baur (p.254) on the pain...