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- Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:59 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Two Powers in Heaven
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2749
Re: Two Powers in Heaven
MrMacSDon, You gotta love Andrei Orlov. One issue I see, though, is that Hekhalot literature as written texts are rather late (near the end of the Roman hegonomy over the east), and as the footnotes to the translation of 3rd (Hebrew) Enoch in Charlesworth's volumes make clear, there were actually at...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 328
Re: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?
Hello again allegoria, I found the reference in Conley's Ignatius article, but due to scanning errors and Conley's unusual citation style I had to reformat it a bit. He references Cornelius, Bishop of Rome who, in a letter to Bishop Fabius of Antiochia, dated to 251 C.E., detailed the size of his co...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:07 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Important milestones in biblical scholarship
- Replies: 25
- Views: 785
Re: Important milestones in biblical scholarship
I have read a couple Context Group publications, often called the Social Science model for understanding ancient Mediterranean cultures: Bruce J Malina & Richard L. Rohrbaugh (Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels) and Bruce J Malina (The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural A...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:36 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Do any Church Fathers state or imply that Jesus spoke Aramaic during his ministry (ie in gospel)?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 628
Re: Do any Church Fathers state or imply that Jesus spoke Aramaic during his ministry (ie in gospel)?
I believe that it was Joachim Jeremias , in The Parables of Jesus (Engl transl 1955 by S H Hooke), who seriously pursued the idea that Jesus' parables as presented in the Greek language Gospels were best understood as reflecting an Aramaic language source. Jeremias does not, unfortunately, cite the ...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 328
Re: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?
I think Peter K. may have a copy, though. I was able to find his old website archived. "St. Ignatius, the Insidious Pragmatism of the Episkopoi of Rome and the Rise of Christianity" https://web.archive.org/web/20050203235802/http://thecosmiccontext.de/christianity/Ignatius1.html "Ign...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:07 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 328
Re: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?
I rooted around for Conley's article. I found it below, although it no longer seems to be posted online. It may once have been online at RadicalKritik (I have shurely spellded it wrong). IIRC, and this was 24 years ago, Conley drew upon his experiences researching a pamphlet for the Dept of the Army...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 328
Re: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?
What were their primary means of revenue (donations from individual rich donors versus average “member” collections)? What percentage of the revenue went where? This I am really interested in: what percent went to expensive incense and oil, what percent to feasts, what percent to aiding the poor, w...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 3:26 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Short Recension of Three Letters of Ignatius
- Replies: 35
- Views: 962
Re: The Short Recension of Three Letters of Ignatius
To my untrained eye, the Syriac versions seem to be summaries of sections of the shorter Greek recension. I am not afraid of being shown the error of my ways, though. Do you have a feel for if the shorter Syriac leters of Ignatius refer to the Pauline Epistles in a way that is above and beyond what...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Short Recension of Three Letters of Ignatius
- Replies: 35
- Views: 962
Re: The Short Recension of Three Letters of Ignatius
Here is that last one. The ET of the Syriac was already in the Romans epistle file, but here at least you can see what the the rest of the shorter & longer Greek recensions have to say. (Ignatius) Trallians (ETs of shorter & longer Greek & Syriac fragment, compared).pdf To my unt...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Short Recension of Three Letters of Ignatius
- Replies: 35
- Views: 962
Re: The Short Recension of Three Letters of Ignatius
In days past (2015), whilst I was busy with my comparison of the Longer and Shorter (aka "Middle") Greek recensions of epistles where both shorter and longer Greek existed, I did compare them to the ANF version of Cureton's epistles. Interesting thing was, there are only three actual Syria...