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- Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:00 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Were Marcionites keepers of the original Christian faith?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 551
Re: Were Marcionites keepers of the original Christian faith?
Were the Marcionites the keepers of the original Christian faith? (1) Was their faith represented by the original Pauline epistles? If so, where did the author of the original Pauline epistles get his ideas from? Kind of a leading question in my opinion, for what are the "original" Paulin...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:06 am
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: The History & Mythology of Eclipses
- Replies: 3
- Views: 343
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:35 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Why I Think Morton Smith is Innocent
- Replies: 8
- Views: 258
Re: Why I Think Morton Smith is Innocent
I can accept that the Letter to Theodore is spurious (though I don't think it is, I can accept it is possible), but I cannot accept that Smith forged it and have not been convinced by any of the arguments put forward thus far as they rely on circumstantial evidence (comparing its discovery to the pl...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:01 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Letters as a unique Christian genre
- Replies: 11
- Views: 462
Re: Letters as a unique Christian genre
Originally I wanted to title this thread something like "Ignatius as a competitor to Paul", and I may still do that, but while trying to formulate my thoughts I had a quick aside. Letters, epistles, ἐπιστολή, and letter writing was an especial genre in Greek and Roman literature. Seneca's...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 12:54 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Letters as a unique Christian genre
- Replies: 11
- Views: 462
Re: Letters as a unique Christian genre
But above all why did letter writing become so extant that they rival even the four Gospels in authority ? BeDuhn has a suggestion, posted here: https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11822 That's really interesting. Thank you for this Peter! If that's the case then it makes the ar...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:01 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Letters as a unique Christian genre
- Replies: 11
- Views: 462
Letters as a unique Christian genre
Originally I wanted to title this thread something like "Ignatius as a competitor to Paul", and I may still do that, but while trying to formulate my thoughts I had a quick aside. Letters, epistles, ἐπιστολή, and letter writing was an especial genre in Greek and Roman literature. Seneca's ...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:32 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: “Pontius Pilate” was merely a historicization of the original Greek “πόντος πιλητὸς” (dense sea)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2627
Re: “Pontius Pilate” was merely a historicization of the original Greek “πόντος πιλητὸς” (dense sea)
If I may self indulge a little bit, Pontius Pilate serves a functionary role in the Christian cycle. Is he historical? Yes, without question; but then what else would his purpose be if he was only used as a means of pinning Jesus's own historicity (which may or may not have been in question when the...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 5:04 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: “Pontius Pilate” was merely a historicization of the original Greek “πόντος πιλητὸς” (dense sea)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2627
Re: “Pontius Pilate” was merely a historicization of the original Greek “πόντος πιλητὸς” (dense sea)
I can fully appreciate that Pontus Pilate was used for more allegorical symbolism for the Gospel(s) writer(s). His historicity is simply a convenient utility as well.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:40 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Further evidence that Ignatius faced old deniers of the historicity of Jesus
- Replies: 95
- Views: 2394
Re: Further evidence that Ignatius faced old deniers of the historicity of Jesus
Hey Joseph, Glad to see you back! Cheers DCHindley! It's good to be back. Overall I will say I have reluctance in trying to determine how people two thousand years ago thought. I'm not saying Giuseppe's reading is wrong in and of itself per say, but that from my narrow perspective he does seem to a...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Further evidence that Ignatius faced old deniers of the historicity of Jesus
- Replies: 95
- Views: 2394
Re: Further evidence that Ignatius faced old deniers of the historicity of Jesus
Giuseppe, are you saying that Ignatius is a witness to people who denied the historicity of Jesus? For one thing, if he is I don't see how that is an argument in favour of mythicism because the two, historicity and mythicism, are relatably different and demand two different categories of evidence to...