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- Thu May 09, 2024 4:59 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Wide ranging study on Christian forgery?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4392
Re: Wide ranging study on Christian forgery?
This represents both an exhibit and a collection of essays on forgery. It is very wide ranging and very interesting. It does include a number of Christian forgeries including the Donation of Constantine and the proliferation of Holy Relics from the later 4th century for over a thousand years Fake fo...
- Tue May 07, 2024 4:32 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Proposition: There are Three Major Classes of Christian Literature
- Replies: 43
- Views: 12663
Re: Proposition: There are Three Major Classes of Christian Literature
Fundamental Key Field in any Relational (Factual) Database for Christian Origins are the extant texts themselves Forget Jesus, Marcion, Tertullian, Eusebius, Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Epiphanius, Origen and the host of hypothetical historical identities involved in the received tradition of ...
- Sun May 05, 2024 5:41 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: might help explain why there are no copies today
- Replies: 3
- Views: 157
Re: might help explain why there are no copies today
also quoted here: https://preachersinstitute.com/2017/08/17/discourse-theotokos/ With over 20 years experience teaching, preaching, and guiding souls to Christ, Fr. John offers classes, workshops, seminars, and articles about Christian teaching, preaching and practice. https://preachersinstitute.co...
- Sun May 05, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 618
Re: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
4. The epitaph 120 by Gregory of Nazianzus The fourth and last Ancient writing about Macrina is an epitaph by Gregory of Nazianzus. It suggests that Macrina had been hidden and unknown before VSM made her famous. The epitaph reads as follows: “ Me, the dust, I hold the radiant virgin, if you hear a...
- Fri May 03, 2024 9:03 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Niels Lemche, "272 BCE – A Terminus a Quo"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 491
Re: Niels Lemche, "272 BCE – A Terminus a Quo"
Niels P. Lemche (U. Copenhagen) wrote an essay, April, 2024 at https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/272-bce-terminus-quo I was not persuaded. Others? I am persuaded that Lemche and Gmirkin and others have developed sound cases for a Hellenistic era origin for the Hebrew writings. You were asked...
- Wed May 01, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 618
Re: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
The discovery at Nag Hammadi exposed the lies of the Orthodox about the Gnostics, and yet biblical scholars reconstruct Marcion's theology based on the accusations of the Orthodox who were hostile to him. This is something I don't understand at all. How can so many people not notice the techniques ...
- Wed May 01, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 618
Re: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
Asked the author the following question: I have one small question: Do you think it is possible that (saint) Anthony was an invention of "Athanasius"? I put "Athanasius "in inverted commas due to the comment of Erasmus "nothing is easier than to place any name you want on t...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:37 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 618
Re: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
short https://apcz.umk.pl/SPLP/article/download/SPLP.2018.019/24441/61350 A good summary. Leucius Charinus You are welcome. Marcion a is a disciple of Simon in Stromata 7.17. In other sources Marcion is a disciple of Cerdo who was a disciple of Simon. Just black PR. Can you elaborate on what you me...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:19 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 618
Re: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
https://www.academia.edu/86026669/Macrina_the_Younger_as_a_Substitute_for_Eustathius_the_Philosopher_Eustathius_of_Sebastea_Establishing_Peter_at_the_See_of_Sebastea Thanks JarekS. That's a very well researched book. The "editorial hands of Basil and Gregory" have long been identified as ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 12:35 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Implications of Marcion for early Christianity?
- Replies: 115
- Views: 6650
Re: Implications of Marcion for early Christianity?
In fact, I see the interactions on this forum as providing a hint to how the Church Fathers interacted with themselves and the heretical groups, except those interactions occurred over decades rather than weeks. These interactions occurred over centuries for those including citations about Marcion ...