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by FransJVermeiren
Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:44 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The apocalyptic XVIth chapter of the Didache
Replies: 43
Views: 19855

Re: The apocalyptic XVIth chapter of the Didache

Thank you once again, DCH, this time for your nice overview. I didn’t know its existence, I will use it to my advantage. As you can see my approach is a little bit different, as Josephus is also involved. I am sure I am not merely going to repeat your table. I already see a difference in our discuss...
by FransJVermeiren
Sun Oct 23, 2016 11:39 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The apocalyptic XVIth chapter of the Didache
Replies: 43
Views: 19855

The apocalyptic XVIth chapter of the Didache

The Didache is broadly considered to be an independent and very early Christian writing, probably from the end of the first century CE. It shows some relationship with the gospel of Matthew and with Revelation, but it is not dependent on either of them. The last chapter of the Didache is written in ...
by FransJVermeiren
Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:01 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: RBL review of The Didache: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle
Replies: 2
Views: 2207

Re: RBL review of The Didache: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle

DCH, thank you for your reading suggestions. They stimulated me to study the apocalyptic final chapter of this early Christian writing again. I will shortly start a new topic on Didache XVI.
by FransJVermeiren
Sat Oct 15, 2016 5:23 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Cross and destruction of the Temple in one breath
Replies: 11
Views: 6402

Re: Cross and destruction of the Temple in one breath

Daniel M. Gurtner (2006) The Veil of the Temple in History and Legend Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 49/1; pp. 97–114 http://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/49/49-1/JETS_49-1_97-114_Gurtner.pdf MrMacSon, thank you for your interesting reading suggestion. Especially Gurtner’s text on...
by FransJVermeiren
Thu Oct 06, 2016 9:55 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Cross and destruction of the Temple in one breath
Replies: 11
Views: 6402

Cross and destruction of the Temple in one breath

The Testament of Benjamin 9 verses 3-5 closely link Jesus’ crucifixion and the tearing of the veil of the Temple. (The square brackets around the translations below indicate that these verses are considered a Christian interpolation in the Jewish text.) I give two translations: 1. Charles, R.H., in ...
by FransJVermeiren
Sun Oct 02, 2016 11:47 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Crossing blocked, return impossible (Luke 9:51-62)
Replies: 2
Views: 2661

Re: Crossing blocked, return impossible (Luke 9:51-62)

My discussion of Luke 9:51-62 above showed the war events of a mid-September day of the year 67CE at the border between Galilee and Samaria. Below I will discuss the rest of Luke’s travel narrative, and I connect both contributions with a verse of Josephus’s Jewish War (II, 265): Then, deployed in g...
by FransJVermeiren
Sun Sep 18, 2016 11:44 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Lordship in the epistle of James.
Replies: 42
Views: 19968

Re: Lordship in the epistle of James.

MrMacSon cited: •The superior level of Greek in the letter seems beyond what James, brother of Jesus, could have produced. I hear this a lot. But I think the situation is similar to the Dead Sea Scrolls. They are approximately 80% Hebrew, 16% Aramaic, and 3% Greek (and some Nabatean), but it says i...
by FransJVermeiren
Sat Sep 17, 2016 1:13 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Lordship in the epistle of James.
Replies: 42
Views: 19968

Re: Lordship in the epistle of James.

I see only three relatively clean options here: James consistently refers to God the Father as "Lord", and only the name of Jesus Christ (as in 1.1 and 2.1) is enough to make the title apply to anyone else. James consistently refers to God the Father as "Lord", and both phrases ...
by FransJVermeiren
Wed Sep 14, 2016 12:36 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: On the Abomination of Desolation
Replies: 26
Views: 11165

Re: On the Abomination of Desolation

As you note, I am interested about any interpretation of Mark's Jesus as pure allegory . Surely Titus is a good candidate as ''abomination that causes desolation'' : 'Mark' is saying cryptically that the resurrection of the New Israel in the mountainous region of ''Galilee'' will happen just when T...
by FransJVermeiren
Mon Sep 12, 2016 10:56 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: On the Abomination of Desolation
Replies: 26
Views: 11165

Re: On the Abomination of Desolation

The question would be: if someone was already offering himself as 'Christus redivivus' at the time of Paul (to move the apostle to write 2 Thess 2), then why was this ''someone'' posing as Christ by entering ''in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God'' ? In the epistles, we don't know about C...