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In the 4th century, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa invented their sister Macrina the Younger for very mundane reasons - it was for the good of their careers. What happened here? For a C4 parallel to her argument that 'Macrina' is entirely a fictional construct, Przyszychowska points to Paul o...

JarekS wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:09 pm In the 4th century, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa invented their sister Macrina the Younger for very mundane reasons - it was for the good of their careers.

What happened here?

To a limited extent I agree with Panaanen. Some of the arguments linking Morton Smith to the Mar Saba letter do appear flimsy. (After reading and enjoying Anglo-Saxon attitudes I do not believe it influenced in any way the author of the Mar Saba letter.) That's one good example, yes. It seems that ...

One possibility (possibly wrong) is that Marcion (or his literary aid/s) worked from a manuscript of Luke and from a manuscript of Matthew to attempt to present the authentic, un-interpolated original Gospel. Assuming he worked from those manuscripts, then: what was he working with ? Insight, revel...

What are the arguments pertaining to Evangelion? Well, here's a start. I'd preface this by saying this is all very provisional. I reserve the right to be wrong. Its just a few hours worth of work: doing a good job would take at least a year....so any help improving or disproving this is welcome. To...

One possibility (possibly wrong) is that Marcion (or his literary aid/s) worked from a manuscript of Luke and from a manuscript of Matthew to attempt to present the authentic, un-interpolated original Gospel.

Very cool, thank you

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that use of the word also gave the name εὐαγγέλιον to the literary genre of works So The Gospel of Mark literally wrote itself into existence. And then went on to rewrite the world. Logos. This is similar to how the first line of Herodotus Histories gave a name to a literary genre: Learn something ...