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- Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:46 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Mark's use of Philo
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1329
Re: Mark's use of Philo
Understanding narrative criticism was something I took a stab at over 10 years ago. The following is based mainly on Stephen D Moore 's Post Structuralism and the New Testament (1994). "in its more ambitious forms, [a Post Structuralist approach] attempts to analyze biblical texts as products o...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
- Replies: 120
- Views: 4780
Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
With the image of this coin on the left in mind, and if she was an actress, what CNN anchor has the perfect look to play Cleopatra in a film? Probably Erin Burnett, by far the sharpest pencil there, female or male.* DCH *Before starting on CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront (2011–present), she had worked ...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Can We At Least Agree that the Marcionites Did Not Call Jesus "Christ"?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 602
Re: Can We At Least Agree that the Marcionites Did Not Call Jesus "Christ"?
Joseph, this is really ridiculous. Every day several Marcion threads are opened in this forum, the starting point of which is exactly the opposite. This forum has now become the Marcionite Speculations Forum. Sinouhe is right: some people here are really obsessed with Marcion. Not for StephenGorans...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:55 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: Did the ancient prophet Ezekiel tell the truth about Russ
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14787
Re: Did the ancient prophet Ezekiel tell the truth about Russ
In a full-scale nuclear exchange, approximately 91 mln people would be dead in a day or so. Ho-hum. Nobody wants that, even though it seems we continue to be stuck at 1 minute before midnight on the nuclear "clock" since the 1960s. Its one thing if serious reasonable leaders are in charge...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:00 am
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: Did the ancient prophet Ezekiel tell the truth about Russ
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14787
Re: The AntiChrist, Armageddon
oyVJsg0XIIk More nuclear war chatter from The Beast. Old news, how it ends https://www.icanw.org/new_study_on_us_russia_nuclear_war Used to pluck tracts from the brochure racks of this Fundamentalist church near my Jr college in 74/75, full of crazy interpretations of "end times prophecy,"...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:58 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Claudius was Jewish?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 560
Re: Salome
Salome, the Quintessential Jewish Whore Workbook, on the popularity of S. as Jewish name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_(disciple)#:~:text=In%20John%2C%20three%2C%20or%20perhaps,thus%20making%20her%20Jesus%27%20aunt. You do know, of course (aaarrrrgggghhh!!!), that the popularity of the name ...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:39 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What did Paul mean by brother(s) of the Lord?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 86592
Re: What did Paul mean by brother(s) of the Lord?
More generally, if some hypothetical anonymous scribe could think of the possible connection with the text in front of him to make this note, why couldn't Origen make the same connection working from memory? The note maker (if s/he existed) would have been honestly perplexed how the two passages co...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:36 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: Jesus’ Deification & Cognitive Dissonance Theory
- Replies: 4
- Views: 409
Re: Jesus’ Deification & Cognitive Dissonance Theory
Interestingly, I was surprised to learn that a significant article on Cognitive Dissonance and the development of early Christian belief was written by David Aune, "Christian Beginnings and Cognitive Dissonance Theory," in Gospel-Tradition-and-Paul-in-the-context-of-Jewish-and-Greco-Roman-...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:12 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Who are scholars doubting the Historicity of Paul, and are any of them non-mythicists?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 217
Re: Who are scholars doubting the Historicity of Paul, and are any of them non-mythicists?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Detering is/was one of the most influential writers "sceptical of Paul's authorship of the Pauline epistles," but that isn't quite the same thing as "doubting the Historicity of Paul." Schweitzer discusses Dutch Radicals who thought all the ...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:24 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
- Replies: 72
- Views: 143582
Re: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
Your academic gung-fu is very good, Let me digest what you have there. It is nice to see at least one other member here who takes the time to slice and dice sources, including modern ones. You seem to like the tertiary works (like textbooks and academic publications) while I tend to favor the source...