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Conjecture? Yes, the assertion that Jesus may have been known in Nazareth and Capernaum at different times is simple conjecture. "Capernaum is earlier in the tradition than either, being in all three synoptics and Q." Leaving aside Q, which is conjecture, That the three canonical synoptic...

compare Mk 6:1-2 and Mk 1:21-22, 27. They are fundamentally the same story. Which was earlier, the "hometown" version or the "Capernaum" version? I tend to agree with this random person on the internet :-) who wrote: These two sources were absorbed into the Marcan textual fabric...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:58 am They all make Ben C Smith into a martyr because of his departure from the forum. You were always number 1 to me.

Thanks. Seemed you were suggesting more than simply leaving, but no.

A simple possibility is that Jesus was known in Nazareth and Capernaum at different times. Conjecture doesn't help. You need to deal with the fact that Nazara is more integral to the gospel tradition than Nazareth. One can't - like some have done - guess that the difference between Nazara & Naz...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:08 pm spin is my Ben C Smith. They all weep for Ben like he's the dying Adonis.

Hey, what's this story about Ben C?

Notwithstanding Tertullian's amazing text-critical skills, writing circa 200CE renders him worthless for any historical analysis of texts that had reached their final forms. And compare Mk 6:1-2 and Mk 1:21-22, 27. They are fundamentally the same story. Which was earlier, the "hometown" ve...

"...turns it into Nazareth," I doubt. Probably correct as far as it goes. However, There was at least one intermediate step. The earliest manuscript containing part of Mt 2:23 had Nazara (P70bis), while 4:3 also features Nazara, so there is only one mention of Nazareth in Mt, at 21:11 par...

I think Acts helps us to understand how Jews Greeks and Romans interacted in the mid 1st century. The 2nd century was different. It is the right sort of interaction for the period. E.G Roman citizenship is rather rare in the Eastern mediterranean and it is binary one has it in an all or nothing way...

a/ I think the importance of Jerusalem as an early center of Christianity can be argued from the letters of Paul e.g. Galatians. (I am not really interested in discussing whether Galatians etc have been interpolated to support later orthodoxy.) Acts seems to have been written to create an importanc...

In passing here are the Westar Institute Acts Seminar findings on the book of Acts: The use of Acts as a source for history has long needed critical reassessment. Acts was written in the early decades of the second century. The author of Acts used the letters of Paul as sources. Except for the lette...