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- Wed Feb 22, 2017 1:08 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Codex Sinaiticus - the white parchment Friderico-Augustanus
- Replies: 461
- Views: 386627
Re: Codex Sinaiticus - the white parchment Friderico-Augusta
I read this as a "No" then.. To what specific question? Anyway, has anyone ever calculated how much it would cost to forge such a manuscript? You would have to produce all that top notch, selected parchment which is obviously handcrafted with utmost care. Then someone would have to devise...
- Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:52 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Carrier presented on Josephus at SBL MidWest Feb 2017
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9926
Re: Carrier on the Arabic Testimonium
Carrier has posted on the topic on his blog (with a link to a handout): http://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/12071 He also posted a blog-commentary titled The End of the Arabic Testimonium - Often when expert opinions are cited in favor of some form of the Testimonium having been written by Jose...
- Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:35 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: The Bodies of God by Sommer
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6829
Re: The Bodies of God by Sommer
Thank you Andrew , In page 76 Sommer writes The contrast with E's description of the communication that takes place at the tent is telling. In E , both the humans and God come to the Tent, the humans from the camp and God from heavens: " Yhwh called suddenly to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, ' Come ...
- Sat Feb 18, 2017 2:32 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Mentions of Turin Shroud or Image of Edessa before 400 AD?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1405
Re: Mentions of Turin Shroud or Image of Edessa before 400 A
........................................................ This could have been associated with an early 3rd c. pro-Christian emperor: the new Emperor Alexander Severus (11 March 222–235). Not only Severus' court filled with Christians but he is reported to have learned the golden rule, "Do unto...
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:42 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Julian's attempt at rebuilding temple and Christian legens
- Replies: 28
- Views: 26900
Re: Julian's attempt at rebuilding temple and Christian lege
I notice that Andrew commented that: The usual source for the claim that Hadrian built a temple to Jupiter on the Temple Mount is Cassius Dio. But this refers not to the original text of Cassius Dio book 69 but to the Byzantine epitome which has parallels to late Christian legendary sources. See Di...
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:35 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Also the archons were hidden and seen as Gods...
- Replies: 51
- Views: 22680
Re: Also the archons were hidden and seen as Gods...
Andrew wrote that the Simon's view in Hyppolitus are of the his later followers. Schmithals wrote the exact contrary: Schmithals describes what he sees as a pr-Christian system of Jewish Gnosticism. He begins with a discussion of the thought system of Simon (Simon Magus in Acts) as described by Hip...
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:06 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Myth of widespread messianic expectations early first C
- Replies: 179
- Views: 99099
Re: Myth of widespread messianic expectations early first C
So Novenson in the article above: Like the anonymous Jews mentioned by Tacitus and Suetonius, Paul believed that in his own time a man from the East was rising to rule the whole world; unlike those anonymous Jews, Paul believed that God had enlisted him to recruit pagan subjects for this Jewish kin...
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:54 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Josephus' Portrait of David
- Replies: 68
- Views: 43232
Re: Josephus' Portrait of David
....................................................................................................... Damn, lost part of my last draft of this, so I'll have to give the abbreviated version. The Social Science model for understanding ancient Mediterranean cultures: Bruce J. Malina & Richard L....
- Mon Feb 06, 2017 11:50 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Myth of widespread messianic expectations early first C
- Replies: 179
- Views: 99099
Re: Myth of widespread messianic expectations early first C
The alternative to a belief in (reasonably) widespread messianic expectation in the early first century seems to be that the Jewish war and fall of Jerusalem generated messianic expectations that were previously lacking; and that these expectations were back projected by later writers into the earl...
- Sat Feb 04, 2017 4:15 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Also the archons were hidden and seen as Gods...
- Replies: 51
- Views: 22680
Re: Also the archons were hidden and seen as Gods...
We may have to distinguish between what Hippolytus thought and what actually happened. IF Hippolytus regarded the Naassenes as earlier than Simon Magus, then this was probably because he regarded the teaching of the Naasenes (as described in book 5 of his work against heresies) as more primitive th...