Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

I see the lists in AH 1.23-31 (1.22 something of a transition to the added material) as much later than the author of the first 21 chapters, something of an appended document from somewhere else. The first of the dead giveaways are the switching from a argument style to that of simply defining the o...

Uh, it comes from Psalm 22:1 (LXX 21:2). The Aramaic in Matthew and Mark is almost certainly anachronistic, a literary device, nothing more.

The consensus reconstruction of Marcionite Galatians excludes verses 1:18-24, and most also verse 1:17. The entire first visit to Jerusalem is missing. All mention of Barnabas is missing. There are many other verses and phrases (parts of verses) missing, as there are throughout the corpus. Linguisti...

Irenaeus is not 2nd century, but a collection of material that spans 3rd and 4th century. The very same reasons you doubt Tertullian (and I agree with some) need to be applied to the other church father writings. Ignatius is unknown -- or at least his supposed writings, until well into the 4th centu...

Ignatius was dated in the 4th/5th century. Although some folks have tried to push it back to the early 2nd century because they prefer the theology to have been from that era. It's not based on any real forensics.

Martyrdom implies strongly that we are talking post-Decian authorship.

It has been seriously suggested that Onesimus the runaway slave in Paul's letter to Philemon (not the Pastorals) and Onesimus the bishop in Ignatius are the same person fifty years apart. Andrew Criddle This is literature, anything is possible with legends (look at Star Trek and Harry Potter; heck ...

These names show up in the secondary "so and so send greetings/salutations" which are almost certainly not part of the original letters. Apelles (Romans 16:10) for one shows up. It should be noted that the word ἀσπάζομαι seems not to have been found in the Marcionite versions of the Paulin...

Jesus Barabbas and Barabbas achieve the same goal, just as Simon Peter and Peter do. It's a distinction without a difference. BTW, Couchoud is just a guy, like you an me. And like you and me you can pick a piece here and there that makes sense, and you can discard what you think goes too far or is o...

BTW, I don't think you will find the magical "first Christian beliefs" with the original Gospel. Never meant do that. The Gospels are only propaganda, so by definition a betrayal of the reality. Clearly the killers of Jesus were identified with the Jews because of a radical opposition aga...