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Michael Avi-Yonah, Abbreviations in Greek Inscriptions Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine (Jerusalem: Government of Palestine, 1940) As reprinted in Abbreviations in Greek Inscriptions Al. N. Oikonomides Professor of Classics Loyola University Chicargo. Illinois ARES Publishing...

The following is from the Jewish scholar Michael Avi-Yonah (1904-74) - Professor of Archaeology and History of Art at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It seems to indicate that to his knowledge (c.1940) that the "system as described by Traube was not adopted for inscriptions before the 4th c...

Another abbreviation by suspension with the first four letters: https://inscriptions.packhum.org/text/313548?hs=26-34 CIL III 10189(12) Epeiros, Illyria, and Dalmatia : Dalmatia Χρισ(τός). And another one. https://inscriptions.packhum.org/text/262348?hs=334-342 IK Rhod. Peraia 222 ... Κ(ύρι)ε Ἰε(σο...

So for your OP to be valid we have to logically assume that an underground (not necessarily secret) Christian education system was operative between the century of Christian origins (or the century when the ligatures were first commissioned if different) and the 6th/7th century during which time th...

Looking for good sources on the history of challenges to apostolic authority, especially to the claim that Peter was "the first Pope". I'm not looking so much for the current state of scholarship, but rather a history of when these challenges began and how they developed over the years. I...

Are there any existing threads discussing Martijn's new book, Gospels, Epistles, Old Testament ? There appear to be two major threads: (1) Prima facie observations on Gospels, Epistles, Old Testament: The order of books according to Jesus Chri st https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&am...

The Church Fathers don't want their audience to take an interest in Marcionism or any of the sects they opposed. When you see how exaggerated their coverage was of the Arians it is not hard to see that the Marcionite account was likely garbled and exaggerated. How can we be sure that the Church Fat...

Acts of Thomas and "The [Gnostic] Hymn of the Pearl" https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/actsthomas.html 200-225 CE - Early Christian Writings The following background is provided by Geoff Trowbridge's Introduction Aside from the section of the Acts of John known as the "Preaching...

there is no one or set 'Gnostic' concept of ceatiron Setting aside the claims of the heresiologists and examining the extant "Gnostic" manuscripts themselves (especially those in the NHL and those related) it seems reasonably clear (to me anyway) that the creation account in Plato's "...