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by Ben C. Smith
Tue May 04, 2021 1:19 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Hebrew heavens turn into Greek heaven
Replies: 15
Views: 4548

Re: Hebrew heavens turn into Greek heaven

I think the MT has precedence.... Why would the MT have precedence over the Dead Sea scrolls? Same language, and the scrolls predate the Masoretic scribes by centuries . Also, while the familiarity acquired from my childhood with the Hebraic style of speech may give me a different sense of what cou...
by Ben C. Smith
Tue May 04, 2021 10:27 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Hebrew heavens turn into Greek heaven
Replies: 15
Views: 4548

Re: Hebrew heavens turn into Greek heaven

Ben C. Smith wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 10:20 amThe Dead Sea scrolls appear to have "heavens."
Confirmed:

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by Ben C. Smith
Tue May 04, 2021 10:20 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Hebrew heavens turn into Greek heaven
Replies: 15
Views: 4548

Re: Hebrew heavens turn into Greek heaven

Deu 32.43 is no hit.... No hit in what? ...neither Samuel, nor Psa 8.2 and 8.4. I know the Septuagint has different numbering for some chapters, could that be the cause? For the Psalms possibly (chapter differentiation begins only in Psalm 9, but verse differentiation does exist in chapter 8), but ...
by Ben C. Smith
Tue May 04, 2021 9:53 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Judaism defined itself as not Egyptian?
Replies: 9
Views: 9064

Re: Multiple Sources?

I see there's Commentary by Polyhistor. So the assumption is that any reference to Ezekiel or Exagoge passages must be via Polyhistor, e.g. Eusebius could not have had more than one Ezekiel source (Polyhistor). Well, if the Polyhistor quotations just happened to contain a small extract here and the...
by Ben C. Smith
Tue May 04, 2021 8:25 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Judaism defined itself as not Egyptian?
Replies: 9
Views: 9064

Re: Question on Exagogue's Dating

https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2016/03/03/ezekiel-the-tragedians-play-on-moses-quoted-by-eusebius-found-at-oxyrhynchus/]Roger Pearse on the 2016 re-discovery of Exogogue fragments Perhaps someone may clarify: how do we know Eusebius Praeparatio Evangelica 9.29 is quoting Alexander Polyhistor's...
by Ben C. Smith
Tue May 04, 2021 8:10 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Hebrew heavens turn into Greek heaven
Replies: 15
Views: 4548

Re: Hebrew heavens turn into Greek heaven

Deu 32.43 is no hit.... No hit in what? ...neither Samuel, nor Psa 8.2 and 8.4. I know the Septuagint has different numbering for some chapters, could that be the cause? For the Psalms possibly (chapter differentiation begins only in Psalm 9, but verse differentiation does exist in chapter 8), but ...
by Ben C. Smith
Tue May 04, 2021 7:22 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Hebrew heavens turn into Greek heaven
Replies: 15
Views: 4548

Re: Hebrew heavens turn into Greek heaven

Plural heavens (οὐρανοί, οὐρανῶν, οὐρανοίς, οὐρανούς) in the OG/LXX: Deuteronomy 32.43; 1 Samuel 2.10; 2 Samuel 22.10; 2 Chronicles 28.9; Nehemiah 9.6; Judith 9.12; 13.18; Tobit 8.5; 2 Maccabees 15.23; 3 Maccabees 2.2; Psalm 2.4; 8.2, 4; 18.2; 32.6; 49.6; 56.6, 11, 12; 67.9; 68.35; 88.3, 6, 12; 95.5...
by Ben C. Smith
Mon May 03, 2021 7:45 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Synopsis of Schweitzer’s QHJ [Ch. 1, The Problem]
Replies: 18
Views: 3968

Re: Synopsis of Schweitzer’s QHJ [Ch. 1, The Problem]

I remember reading Robert Stein's article on the criteria of historicity (I could dig up the reference if I had to) and noticing that while he had several criteria by which the historical claims of the New Testament could be confirmed, but none by with any of them could be disconfirmed. Years ago M...
by Ben C. Smith
Mon May 03, 2021 7:41 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: 1 Cor 15:3-11 once again
Replies: 200
Views: 148177

Re: 1 Cor 15:3-11 once again

Re: "the apparent contradiction between 1 Corinthians 15.1, 3 and Galatians 1.11-12 does require an explanation." Here is my explanation: Paul's revelation gave him extraordinary knowledge of the risen Christ in him, but it did not tell him about such ordinary things as who else had also ...
by Ben C. Smith
Mon May 03, 2021 7:34 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Excusing James the Just from the Last Supper.
Replies: 20
Views: 5564

Re: Excusing James the Just from the Last Supper.

I understand why the Gospel of Hebrews and the other accounts of the appearance(s) to James would suggest there were other appearance traditions than that/those in 1 Cor. 15.3-11, but why would that imply that the 1 Cor. 15.3-11 is an interpolation and/or post-Pauline? The appearance to James, espe...