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The following suggestion is extremely speculative . There was no persecution of Samaritans by Commodus or his immediate successors at all. The supposed persecution arises from a mistaken attempt to relate the Samaritan High Priests to the Roman Emperors. Abu l'Fath or his source believed wrongly tha...

The evidence is strong: There is not that the celestial Father who is God. The Son of God, IE Christ, is not God by nature, but he is an angel, as before of coming in this world he was called John . ( Registre de Jacques Fournier , t. II, p. 53, my translation from the Italian text) Therefore if th...

Here is a summary of his work I posted in the old forum. Haven't talked to Boid in over a year. Gives me an excuse to ring him: All of the existing mss. of the Tulida have serious omissions of names of High Priests in the centuries between the wars of the Jews against the Romans and the coming of M...

Secret Alias wrote:It would be funny is the name is a corruption of adiaphoros - the one name you can't imagine a parent naming one of their kids!

There are some odd parents around.
banned baby names

Andrew Criddle

I'm not sure what to make of this but according to Abu l'Fath the persecution by Commodus occurred when 'Aqbun was high priest. However 'Aqbun supposedly was still high priest after Ardashir became Persian ruler (224 CE) and supposedly sent delegates to Ardashir. It is prima-facie unlikely that a hi...

See https://archive.org/stream/copticversio ... 4/mode/2up for the sahidic coptic text of Luke 16:19

Andrew Criddle

One can conveniently read Maximus here Of course I am not saying that the use of the substance/accident distinction is in itself evidence of a late date. The issue is the way the distinction is used by Abu l'Fath (or as we both agree his source). The Abrogation of divine law is an important issue in...

FWIW The debate before Ptolemy between Jews and Samaritans (Abu l'Fath chapter XXVIII Pages 104 - 110 of Abu l'Fath Pages 129 -138 of Stenhouse) contains arguments about the possible Abrogation of the Law and the relevance of the substance-accident distinction, which are only plausible in an Islamic...

FWIW NT Wright has been arguing that Apocalyptic language in the NT should not be taken literally for many years.
Whether correct or not I don't think Horsley is being startlingly original here.

Andrew Criddle

The Angel or Spirit John may possibly be linked to John the evangelist whom the Cathars regarded as an angelic being.
See Iconoclasm...

Andrew Criddle