Speculations are different than well-history-established conclusions.
It might be interesting to hear whether maryhelena accepts those assertions of Charles Wilson.
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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:19 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: History trumps Theology
- Replies: 68
- Views: 569
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 8:36 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: History trumps Theology
- Replies: 68
- Views: 569
Re: History trumps Theology
To declare that gospel writers were secretly referring to the death (by which means is uncertain) of the last Hasmonean claimant, without evidence, is mere unsupported opinion, not history research.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Pliny on the Essenes
- Replies: 8
- Views: 861
Re: Pliny on the Essenes
There is also, with English translations, though in some respects less comprehensive:
The Essenes according to the classical sources
edited by Geza Vermes & Martin Goodman.
Sheffield : JSOT on behalf of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, c1989.
The Essenes according to the classical sources
edited by Geza Vermes & Martin Goodman.
Sheffield : JSOT on behalf of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, c1989.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: History trumps Theology
- Replies: 68
- Views: 569
Re: History trumps Theology
Is anyone here actually arguing that Christianity has nothing to do with history?
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:56 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: History trumps Theology
- Replies: 68
- Views: 569
Re: History trumps Theology
To assert that Gospel writers could not write about "salvation" is peculiar,
since they did.
Apparently, didn't ask your permission.
since they did.
Apparently, didn't ask your permission.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:25 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: History trumps Theology
- Replies: 68
- Views: 569
Re: What is implied if Jesus' historicity was not doubted?
Declaring what Gospel writers could and could not have written and meant, based on retrojecting one individual's modern preference, for example that such was somehow really about the last Hasmonean, is sometimes called eisegesis.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:57 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What is implied if Jesus' historicity was not doubted?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 365
Re: What is implied if Jesus' historicity was not doubted?
Thanks, GakuseiDon, for giving an example showing that some ancient people did claim cases of non-existence.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:52 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Pliny on the Essenes
- Replies: 8
- Views: 861
Re: Pliny on the Essenes
Sources on Essenes are gathered in Antike Berichte über die Essener ausgew. von Alfred Adam. Adam, Alfred, 1899-1975 Berlin, New York : de Gruyter, 1972. Edition A:2., neubearb. u. erw. Aufl. / von Christoph Burchard. Greek or Latin, with editorial matter in German Suggested additional sources in my...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:42 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Archeology - proof of syncretism
- Replies: 1
- Views: 53
Re: Archeology - proof of syncretism
Reuse of a site, by itself, does not provide "proof of syncretism." Especially if the new construction destroys the old one, in which case one possibility is a decision to obliterate the former use; another, more neutral, possibility is simply to take advantage of a good real estate locati...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:34 am
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: New Aztec Codices Discovered
- Replies: 0
- Views: 74
New Aztec Codices Discovered
New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco Posted on March 21, 2024 by Alonso Zamora "Yesterday, a team of specialists of the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico, led by the historians Baltazar Brito Guadarrama and María Castañeda de la Paz, the philo...