Thanks. Seemed you were suggesting more than simply leaving, but no.Secret Alias wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:58 am They all make Ben C Smith into a martyr because of his departure from the forum. You were always number 1 to me.
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- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:00 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Jesus' home in Capernaum?
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Re: Jesus' home in Capernaum?
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Jesus' home in Capernaum?
- Replies: 59
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Re: Jesus' home in Capernaum?
A simple possibility is that Jesus was known in Nazareth and Capernaum at different times. Conjecture doesn't help. You need to deal with the fact that Nazara is more integral to the gospel tradition than Nazareth. One can't - like some have done - guess that the difference between Nazara & Naz...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:50 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Jesus' home in Capernaum?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 1736
Re: Jesus' home in Capernaum?
Hey, what's this story about Ben C?Secret Alias wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:08 pm spin is my Ben C Smith. They all weep for Ben like he's the dying Adonis.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:51 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Jesus' home in Capernaum?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 1736
Re: Jesus' home in Capernaum?
Notwithstanding Tertullian's amazing text-critical skills, writing circa 200CE renders him worthless for any historical analysis of texts that had reached their final forms. And compare Mk 6:1-2 and Mk 1:21-22, 27. They are fundamentally the same story. Which was earlier, the "hometown" ve...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:57 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Jesus' home in Capernaum?
- Replies: 59
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Re: Jesus' home in Capernaum?
"...turns it into Nazareth," I doubt. Probably correct as far as it goes. However, There was at least one intermediate step. The earliest manuscript containing part of Mt 2:23 had Nazara (P70bis), while 4:3 also features Nazara, so there is only one mention of Nazareth in Mt, at 21:11 par...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 4:00 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Forget the Myth of Jesus
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5768
Re: Forget the Myth of Jesus
I think Acts helps us to understand how Jews Greeks and Romans interacted in the mid 1st century. The 2nd century was different. It is the right sort of interaction for the period. E.G Roman citizenship is rather rare in the Eastern mediterranean and it is binary one has it in an all or nothing way...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Forget the Myth of Jesus
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5768
Re: Forget the Myth of Jesus
a/ I think the importance of Jerusalem as an early center of Christianity can be argued from the letters of Paul e.g. Galatians. (I am not really interested in discussing whether Galatians etc have been interpolated to support later orthodoxy.) Acts seems to have been written to create an importanc...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:48 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Forget the Myth of Jesus
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5768
Re: Forget the Myth of Jesus
In passing here are the Westar Institute Acts Seminar findings on the book of Acts: The use of Acts as a source for history has long needed critical reassessment. Acts was written in the early decades of the second century. The author of Acts used the letters of Paul as sources. Except for the lette...
- Mon Feb 14, 2022 4:51 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The nomen sacrum ΙΣ in Justin's Dialogue with Trypho 75
- Replies: 43
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Re: The nomen sacrum ΙΣ in Justin's Dialogue with Trypho 75
And what does that prove? No more than a version of Dialogue had this section of text and used the nomen sacrum this way. The exemplar of the orthodox edition of Justin used by Irenaeus had this section of text. But the Dialogue is acknowledged even by conservative scholars such as Craig Evans to h...
- Mon Feb 14, 2022 4:12 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Why Paul never quotes Jesus
- Replies: 172
- Views: 37884
Re: Why Paul never quotes Jesus
Given that Paul is our earliest writer on the subject of Jesus, you must not retroject ideas from later works to bring Paul into their fold. Relevance in tradition only goes foward, not backward. We must look at Paul's Jewish cultural background to contextualise and understand him. That's why we lo...