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Supposedly the Church of the Holy Sepulchre covers several ancient sites like Golgotha. Golgotha should have been a prominent place. It seems likely that they would have gotten at least hat location right. The site of Golgotha may well be correct. However Jerusalem was basically destroyed and rebui...

andrew ... or the real origins of Mark had been lost before Papias wrote. This is unlikely if Mark had originated relatively recently before Papias wrote. Why unlikely? How long does it usually take for the real origins of an anonymously authored work to be lost? Papias is quoting what 'the elder' ...

The Elder also said this, “Mark, being the interpreter of Peter, whatsoever he remembered he wrote accurately, but not however in the order that these things were spoken or done by our Lord. For he neither heard the Lord, nor followed him, but afterwards, as I said, he was with Peter, who did not m...

Papias, writing probably in the time of Hadrian, says The Elder also said this, “Mark, being the interpreter of Peter, whatsoever he remembered he wrote accurately, but not however in the order that these things were spoken or done by our Lord. For he neither heard the Lord, nor followed him, but af...

...................... Tuccinardi, Enrico (2017) 'An application of a profile-based method for authorship verification: Investigating the authenticity of Pliny the Younger's letter to Trajan concerning the Christians' Digital Scholarship in the Humanities , Vol 32, Issue 2 ( June 2017 ); pp. 435–44...

................................................................................... What I am imagining is as follows. The Transfiguration was originally the legend of an appearance by Jesus to the apostles: at least to Peter, and possibly to others. Its status as such is preserved in the Apocalyps...

........................... One of the books in the Sinodos, Testament of Our Lord, is dated to the 4th to 5th century. The Didascalia Apostolorum is generally dated to c. 230 AD. The Testament of Our Lord is online. It is an updated version of the 3rd century Apostolic Tradition Andrew Criddle

The following is roughly based on arguments by the late TC Skeat. Irenaeus says It is not possible that the Gospels can be either more or fewer in number than they are. For, since there are four zones of the world in which we live, and four principal winds, while the Church is scattered throughout a...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2018 7:53 pm Those who have studied the church of St Adam link Eusebius's comments about the Adamiani (= those of Adam) with this church:

Epiphanius not Eusebius

Andrew Criddle

I'm almost sure that Abulfaraj, in Münter is Bar Hebraeus the passage may be http://www.syriacstudies.com/AFSS/Syriac_Articles_in_English/Entries/2009/9/29_Bar_Hebraeus_ChronographyThe_Roman_Emperors_Translated_from_Syriac_by_Ernest_A._Wallis_Budge.html And in the tenth year of TRAJAN, GALEN the phy...