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. From Philippians 2 25 ...I think it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus—my brother and co-worker and fellow soldier, your messenger/[apostle] and minister to my need; 26 for he has been longing for/[longing to see] all of you, and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill. 27 He was...

Could the name Apelles be a variation on the name Apollo?

and, was Apelles also known as Apollos?

Here Carrier shows agains his proverbial certainty that Philo indirectly called ''Jesus'' the Logos. http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/archives/9710 What is new in his argument is the impressive evidence supporting the strict identity between the Jesus of Paul and the Logos/Anthropos of Philo. As...

The seven letter Greek edition has been challenged by modern scholars; see, for example The Four Authentic Letters of Ignatius [via google.com.uk] The Four Authentic Letters of Ignatius [via google.com] by J. Rius - Camps. What remains a consensus is that the Syriac recension is an abridgment. Does...

I can say that I am quite open to what we find in the Qumran scrolls having a lot to do with how Christianity started. I may simply require more education on the topic than I currently possess. I'm not sure if you're reference there to 'the topic' is to the Qumran scrolls (I suspect it isn't; I get...

An important point - Among the various and often complex lines of argument that have been introduced for and against the "middle" and "short" recensions, the most impressive evidence for [ primacy of ] the "short" recension is the fact that for 200 years after Ignatius,...

If Paul didn't normally write his own letters with his own hand, why is there such conjecture about stylistic differences between the "genuine" and "non-genuine" epistles? If Paul dictated his letters to a secretary then his style would come through just as much as if he wrote t...

. In ' The Fabricated Paul: Early Christianity in the Twilight ' Hermann Detering summarized Dutch Radical's AD Loman's 1881 conclusion - "Christianity in its origin was nothing else than a Jewish-Messianic movement ... the figure of Jesus had never existed, but represented a symbolization and...

Assuming the Syriac versions are abridgements, I am curious about what circumstances would account for their peculiarities. I am wondering if it is related to the circumstances of the most God-pleasing council. That is to say, while Christians were gathered in Antioch from various places to encoura...

Clock is ticking - tick, tick, tick - and not a single example of the kind of 'textual reduction' through cutting chapter after chapter that the Syriac Ignatius texts would require. When you look at the actual examples that would need to be explained you see how silly this claim really is. For the ...