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- Tue Oct 06, 2020 11:16 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: "John the Baptist" = the "Ionian" who gives νοῦς
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3580
Re: "John the Baptist" = the "Ionian" who gives νοῦς
Come on, Stephan. You may not like the idea, but νοῦς is at least a central concept of Socratic philosophy and, more importantly, gnosticism (Valentinus, Basilides, Simon Mages, Gospel of Mary). It's the other part that throws me off.
- Mon Oct 05, 2020 9:56 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: The Hebrew tongue at Qumran.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4904
Re: The Hebrew tongue at Qumran.
As far as I know, the scholarly consensus (I use that term lightly) has mostly shifted to a position that some form of Hebrew was still spoken in some rural areas of Judea well into the 1st century AD, but not really in Jerusalem or Galilee.
- Mon Sep 28, 2020 7:19 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Against the Argument for 'Influences' in Early Christianity
- Replies: 65
- Views: 25019
Re: Against the Argument for 'Influences' in Early Christianity
@Secret Alias: Not sure what you want to tell us here. If it were that easy to assign budding Christianity to a specific sect, someone would have done this by now. However, it isn't easy. If you look at Jesus (well, his teachings from the gospels), you may conclude that you look at 4 parts Hillel an...
- Sun Sep 13, 2020 5:57 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The exegetical origins of the feeding of the 5000 (or 4000).
- Replies: 38
- Views: 21412
Re: The exegetical origins of the feeding of the 5000 (or 4000).
Very nice post, Ben. The Passover connection looks convincing, and it's good to know that the Passover and military connotations are not mutually exclusive, but complement each other.
- Sat Sep 12, 2020 4:51 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did Luke write the epistle of James?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 20295
Re: Did Luke write the epistle of James?
Acts misunderstand the conflict between Peter and Paul. Deliberately so, I think. Given they transform Paul into Peter and Peter into Paul, they try to bridge two irreconcilable positions by mincing those personalities and their views until you get a patty that is palatable for most people from bot...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 9:27 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What Were the Moneychangers at the Temple Changing Money for?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10010
Re: What Were the Moneychangers at the Temple Changing Money for?
I don't see any strong connection, other than the point that some quality of a moneychanger is invoked.
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 8:35 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What Were the Moneychangers at the Temple Changing Money for?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10010
Re: What Were the Moneychangers at the Temple Changing Money for?
I know this is not going to win me any fans but 'the beginning' of the gospel narrative is necessarily Yom Kippur. So we are down to one of two choices - Yom Kippur or Passover. I think it originally took place on Yom Kippur. The Barabbas scene is also a Yom Kippur story, even though that makes Bar...
- Fri Jun 19, 2020 3:04 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid For. Confirmation 16:8 Original
- Replies: 301
- Views: 189451
Re: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid For. Confirmation 16:8 Original
Why are you wasting so much time pretending to be doing textual analysis or criticism? That's your general issue in a nutshell. Your question betrays that you think "textual analysis or criticism" means inventing things out of whole cloth. Which explains most of your posts. A theory is based on exi...
- Tue Apr 28, 2020 11:25 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Herod was called the Messiah, too
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7217
Re: Herod was called the Messiah, too
I was referring to the disconnect that gets visible when someone is surprised that a king might be called "Christ".
- Tue Apr 28, 2020 11:09 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Herod was called the Messiah, too
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7217
Re: Herod was called the Messiah, too
It's not surprising that thought sprang from the mind of a Latin writer, given "Christ" was a title that didn't have any meaning beyond the religious one for them.