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by MrMacSon
Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:11 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Meaning of Nazareth?
Replies: 113
Views: 93570

Re: Meaning of Nazareth?

Nazarene means keeper of the mystery in Aramaic, entirely inline with the demoniac's statement of 'knowing who he is' and in-line with Jesus other statements fwiw, Etymology of the name Nazirite < too limited so omitted > Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary .. נצר The verb נצר ...
by MrMacSon
Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:56 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Meaning of Nazareth?
Replies: 113
Views: 93570

Re: Meaning of Nazareth?

FWIW, (I don't agree with much if anything from the rest of this webpage, but this could be of interest) Etymology and meaning of the name Nazarene Some scholars believe that Nazarene is really a variant form of Nazirite (from נזר, nazar , meaning to consecrate), but others derive it with equal conf...
by MrMacSon
Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:18 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Meaning of Nazareth?
Replies: 113
Views: 93570

Re: Meaning of Nazareth?

FWIW, The Gospel of Philip has: . "The Nazarenos - Ⲡ. ⲚⲀⲌⲀⲢⲎⲚⲞⲤ - who-is-revealed-forth is the secret" : https://metalogos.org/files/ph_interlin/ph020b.html and The apostles [Ⲛ.ⲀⲠⲞⲤⲦⲞⲖⲞⲤ] who were before us were calling him: 'IHC, the.ⲚⲀⲌⲰⲢⲀⲒⲞⲤ, Messiah', that is, 'IHC, the.ⲚⲀⲌⲰⲢⲀⲒⲞⲤ the.X...
by MrMacSon
Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:04 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Meaning of Nazareth?
Replies: 113
Views: 93570

Re: Meaning of Nazareth?

... there are compelling reasons to conclude that Mark 1:1 is a later addition as well. It is the only use of "Jesus Christ" in the entire text. It gives away the identity of the main character, which the writer works to make a mystery throughout the rest of the narrative. I agree. It's [...
by MrMacSon
Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:25 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Meaning of Nazareth?
Replies: 113
Views: 93570

Re: Meaning of Nazareth?

What's the bet that Mark 1:9, "it came to pass in those days came Jesus of Nazaret (Ναζαρὲτ) of Galilee," is a later gloss?
by MrMacSon
Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:07 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Meaning of Nazareth?
Replies: 113
Views: 93570

Re: Meaning of Nazareth?

Mark 1:24 is, of course, preceded by Jesus coming into Galilee "proclaiming the gospel of God, saying 'the time has been fulfilled' and has drawn near the kingdom of God" (vv.14-15) After calling his first disciples, Simon and his brother Andrew, promising to make them fishers of men, and ...
by MrMacSon
Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:13 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Meaning of Nazareth?
Replies: 113
Views: 93570

Re: Meaning of Nazareth?

The Hebrew Judges 13.5 . A nazarite to ĕ·lō·hîm [God] shall be the child from the womb The LXX version of Judges 13.5 . the sanctified nazireon shall be the God- [the] child from the womb Even though Benton's Septuagint Translation, "the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb," doe...
by MrMacSon
Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:56 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Gospel priority
Replies: 98
Views: 2009

Re: Gospel priority

Yep, *Ev is some scholars' shorthand for the Marcionite Evangelion/Euangelion I think it has to have priority over the canonical Gospel accorded to Luke I've read a lot of Markus Vinzent's book, Marcion and the Dating of the Synoptic Gospels, and think his argumentation there is good, and his exege...
by MrMacSon
Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:53 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Sacrifice of Jesus to "purchase" our souls from???
Replies: 17
Views: 409

Re: Sacrifice of Jesus to "purchase" our souls from???

The way I see it there are really only two possibilities here. Either Paul was indicating that the Jewish God (lets call him Yahweh) sacrificed his Son Jesus in order to purchase the souls of mankind from Satan, whom some Jews identified as the "Lord of this world", or he was indicating t...
by MrMacSon
Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:26 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Letter to Theodore (an anti-Carpocratian text)
Replies: 2
Views: 123

Re: Letter to Theodore (an anti-Carpocratian text)

Excerpt from Paananen, T.S.( 2012 ) 'From Stalemate to Deadlock: Clement’s Letter to Theodore in Recent Scholarship,' Currents in biblical research , vol. 11, no. 1, pp.87-125 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1476993X1 the full article here: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/c53fb061-3c0...