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'Parallelomania' seems to be used to disparage propositions that various Christian texts or practices are similar to texts or practices in non-Christian scenarios. It has become a scholarly equivalent of a four letter word. It is used to insult, to dismiss, to ostracize, to avoid engagement. I agre...

Gday all, My favourite parallelomaniacism would be from AcharyaS (RIP) that Jesus the Son of God is a Sun of God ! Maybe not strictly a parallel, but certainly mania. :) Are there parallels in anatolé? --Ανατολιος, ἀνατολή, ῆς, ἡ = sunrise; the east and it's derivations Derived, in turn, from anate...

What does Ludemann say? Gerd Ludemann Heretics: The Other Side of Early Christianity (1996) comments in passing in a footnote that Detering's thesis (Urchristentum im Zwielicht, 1995), that the letters of Paul come from the second century, "is mistaken and is refuted by the existing sources.&q...

'Parallelomania' seems to be used to disparage propositions that various Christian texts or practices are similar to texts or practices in non-Christian scenarios.

The reader can find some correlation with the Gospels only in two verses of the Revelation to Saint John. The first one (I,5) says : "and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us f...

. As somewhat of an aside to the intentions of the OP, it is worth mentioning The Muratorian Fragment as a possible late 2nd C document that "also indicates that there are four authoritative Gospels ..." (Ehrman 2016, p.104). The unidentified author accepts four Gospels, the last two of w...

. A lot of recent discussion on this BC & H Forum has been about 2nd century texts and their interactions - Marcionite texts, their relationships to the NT-Gospels, the Pauline-texts, the Didache, etc. It seems that there are no references to the NT-Gospels as being named or recognized texts in...

to MrMacSon [re 'convergence']? Paraphrasing what I found of the web and adapting it for my application: *The tendency of unrelated religious texts to display superficially similar characteristics because of similar circumstances.* However all definitions I found state 'evolution'. This is not the ...

re - No, that is not what I said. We just don't know any gospel quotations that are attributed to certain authors before the end of the 2nd century, as MrMacSon also showed in his quotes. They're quotes from Ehrman's latest book, so not really 'my' quotes. Here - That does not mean that several diff...

I think your main two dating charts would really benefit from a make-over by a graphics pro. Perhaps I could politely also suggest that your whole web-site could benefit from a re-do ? You've done considerable work in the research and analysis, and have a great deal of useful information - but unfo...