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by Stuart
Mon May 21, 2018 3:00 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Discrediting Your Source. GJohn as Denial of GMark
Replies: 50
Views: 69469

Re: Discrediting Your Source. GJohn as Denial of GMark

which I am convinced is a fraud But you also think the canonical gospels are frauds so in a sense this might mean you accept Secret Mark as an ancient gospel. If this is not your point and you are convinced somehow that Secret Mark is a modern forgery I would be interested in hearing what arguments...
by Stuart
Mon May 21, 2018 1:38 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Discrediting Your Source. GJohn as Denial of GMark
Replies: 50
Views: 69469

Re: Discrediting Your Source. GJohn as Denial of GMark

Joe, Could not everything you say about John against Mark also apply to Matthew? I say this because there are additional specific points of refutation in John against with Matthew not present in Mark (e.g., protoevangelium). John would not need Mark if he was refuting Matthew. I think you put entire...
by Stuart
Sun Apr 29, 2018 11:17 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Aristotelian Terminology in Irenaeus
Replies: 20
Views: 13164

Re: Aristotelian Terminology in Irenaeus

Nice observation. Very 4th century.
by Stuart
Mon Apr 23, 2018 9:33 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Did Acts 18:2 Use Suetonius
Replies: 52
Views: 31092

Re: Did Acts 18:2 Use Suetonius

Close, but backwards. Try it the other way around as a Christian interpolation into Suetonius. The oldest manuscripts are rather late, with an 8th and a 9th century versions being the progenitors of all known copies. We have no idea what changes happened in the preceding 700 years. To have survived ...
by Stuart
Mon Apr 23, 2018 8:08 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Sources for Simon bar Kokhba.
Replies: 31
Views: 68603

Re: Sources for Simon bar Kokhba.

Ben, You are correct on Eliav. I should know better than to check first, my bad. I personally align that two phrases are interpolations The second one here from my notes: Jewish scholar Dr. Menaham Mor, Are there Any New Factors Concerning the Bar Kokhba Revolt?, Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica XVII...
by Stuart
Sun Apr 22, 2018 1:11 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Belly up to the Bar Kochba Rebellion
Replies: 11
Views: 7315

Re: Belly up to the Bar Kochba Rebellion

Yaron Z. Eliav does not really talk about the Statue. His work was on the layout and location of Aelia Capitolina, and how it was north of the City of Jerusalem of Herod's time, in open ground that the Romans preferred for building their Polis. The current Old City is actually and extension of the o...
by Stuart
Sun Apr 22, 2018 11:32 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Sources for Simon bar Kokhba.
Replies: 31
Views: 68603

Re: Sources for Simon bar Kokhba.

Hadrian could not possibly have placed his own statue in front of any temple, or in any temple complex. It would have been a faux pax similar to a pope sanctifying himself, and ordering he be revered among the great saints and a statue erected in Cathedral in his own honor. But is that not exactly ...
by Stuart
Fri Apr 20, 2018 9:13 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: On The Longest Possible Timeline The Survival Rate Of Difficult Markan Readings Goes To Zero. First Rule Of Text Club
Replies: 11
Views: 8330

Re: On The Longest Possible Timeline The Survival Rate Of Difficult Markan Readings Goes To Zero. First Rule Of Text Clu

I very seriously doubt we have any manuscripts or fragments from before the Great Diocletian Persecution. The reasoning is simple. Most manuscripts were confiscated and destroyed. The few survivors were copied into oblivion (heavy handling) in the 4th century. We have Canon lists because the questio...
by Stuart
Sun Apr 15, 2018 9:38 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Dating the books of the New Testament belief not evidence
Replies: 37
Views: 34156

Re: Dating the books of the New Testament belief not evidence

Michael, I think you are correct on opinion, but I would add a few caveats on the upper terminus of Irenaeus and Justin - in fact all the Church fathers. The very same bias which goes into the early NT dating exists: assumptions of compositional unity; acceptance of opening pseudo autobiographical m...
by Stuart
Fri Mar 09, 2018 11:38 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Antithesis (Clean thread)
Replies: 46
Views: 18056

Re: Antithesis (Clean thread)

So you are saying that Matthew Sermon on the Mount was greatly expanded and built upon at a much later date than the rest of the Gospel. Or are you saying Matthew is a much later dated Gospel? But an immediate problem is the consistency of the SoM material with the rest of Matthew, in style and word...