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- Fri Sep 04, 2015 12:24 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The New ChristianOrigins.com "Beta Access"
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23636
Re: The New ChristianOrigins.com "Beta Access"
I read it daily. btw Is the forum banned from the site? :mrgreen: Good question! Posts / threads from the forum seemed to stop being picked up about 5 days ago. Not really sure why. Seems that websites with lots of moving parts like this require maintenance... (Made slightly more difficult due to d...
- Fri Sep 04, 2015 8:14 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did Acts of Apostles introduce Pilate the first time?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3515
Re: Did Acts of Apostles introduce Pilate the first time?
Pilate appears in the Gospel of Mark and in the Gospel of Matthew. At first blush this could work on a theory that neither of them represent the earliest synoptic story, but... All three synoptics and the Gospel of John and the Gospel of Peter structure Pilate into the execution prominently. So the ...
- Fri Sep 04, 2015 8:05 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Huller's (Likely Unrecognized) Contribution to Marcionism
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2359
Re: Huller's (Likely Unrecognized) Contribution to Marcionis
An academic connected with the project could apply for a grant in the United Kingdom to further the work... no?
Perhaps it could still cost more than a grant would provide, but that'd seem to be the place to start (along with a cost estimate).
Perhaps it could still cost more than a grant would provide, but that'd seem to be the place to start (along with a cost estimate).
- Fri Sep 04, 2015 5:45 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: How many Christians ?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13463
Re: How many Christians ?
It may be instructive to look at new religious movements closer in time to our own. Mormonism for example started less than two hundred years ago and reports some 16,000,000 members. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soka_Gakkai The movement was founded by educators Makiguchi and Toda in 1930, but not f...
- Thu Sep 03, 2015 5:45 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Justin's Use of a 'Super Gospel' Passed on to Tertullian
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9655
Re: Justin's Use of a 'Super Gospel' Passed on to Tertullian
Proper academics prefer to use the strategic non-citation or casual dismissal -- but, without your own published work, you can't even expect that much. Someone like Richard Carrier basically has earned the right to be cited unapprovingly in obscure footnotes for the next 20 years and then forgotten....
- Thu Sep 03, 2015 5:38 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Markan priority: an "assured result of modern criticism"?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 36814
Re: Markan priority: an "assured result of modern criticism"
You're going for one too many layers of doubt with "supposed consensus." Using the scare quotes indicates that you do not really agree that it is just a "supposed consensus" and, for example, believe that it's just a plain consensus. You could more appropriately use "consens...
- Mon Aug 31, 2015 3:14 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: "Luke" wanted early Christianity to appear democratic?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2844
"Luke" wanted early Christianity to appear democratic?
I was just reading up on this. Turns out, my rudimentary western education on the meaning and origins of democracy dramatically under-emphasized a radical shift away from the practices more common in ancient Greece and medieval Italy, compared to parliamentary England and most modern democracies. Sp...
- Mon Aug 31, 2015 11:10 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Peter, Your Date for 'the Talmud' at earlychristiansausages
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9054
Re: Peter, Your Date for 'the Talmud' at earlychristiansausa
A perfectly neat solution is difficult to find. The subject is the Talmud, not the Mishnah. The date of the Talmud's written composition is well outside the scope of the website. The date of the oral transmission of the material is both difficult to say and covers a long period of time, both before ...
- Sun Aug 30, 2015 9:28 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Apollinaris of Laodicea, Papias, and the death of Judas.
- Replies: 39
- Views: 29752
Re: Apollinarius of Laodicea, Papias, and the death of Judas
Always read the fine print... These are "hypothetical fragments." One is a quote from Eusebius, and the other is from Victor of Capua ("Pseudo-Polycarp"). http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/polycarp_fragments_01_text.htm Any connection to Papias is, at best, "hypothetical.&qu...
- Sat Aug 29, 2015 2:58 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Peter, Your Date for 'the Talmud' at earlychristiansausages
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9054
Re: Peter, Your Date for 'the Talmud' at earlychristiansausa
It's metaphorical. Otherwise it'd have to be removed from the website canon for being too late in date, and that would be blasphemy. I say late third century That might work, actually. That's still before 325, the new terminus for the website (the old one was 200). What happened in the late third ce...