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- 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: 197
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: 6
- Views: 803
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: 36
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: 41
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...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Easter, Eostre
- Replies: 11
- Views: 513
Re: Easter, Eostre
More on Easter and Bede in post today here:
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/202 ... -temporum/
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/202 ... -temporum/
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:56 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: “Scriptural Vitality: Rethinking Philology and Hermeneutics"
- Replies: 0
- Views: 72
“Scriptural Vitality: Rethinking Philology and Hermeneutics"
“Scriptural Vitality: Rethinking Philology and Hermeneutics" Hindi Najman Abstract: Scriptural Vitality challenges the view that the Persian and Hellenistic periods constitute a time of decay, a period of “late Judaism,” languishing between an original, vibrant Judaism and the birth of Christia...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:28 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Easter, Eostre
- Replies: 11
- Views: 513
Re: Easter, Eostre
dabber: 1) You have suggested Easter was a borrowing from pagan Eos or Ishtar. One or both? 2) More generally, it may be that there are different views on what is pagan and what is Christian. One example--I am confident that you can think of others: Is it ok, or is it pagan, for a Christian to posse...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:43 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
- Replies: 120
- Views: 4780
Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
Hasmoneans professed belief in God. That's one reason I wonder why you regret they came to an end.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:28 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
- Replies: 120
- Views: 4780
Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
If understand you correctly, maryhelena, you present Hasmoneans as quite good, and ended in a tragic loss.
Do you wish to restore rule by King,
or civil war,
or temple service with animal sacrifice?
Do you wish to restore rule by King,
or civil war,
or temple service with animal sacrifice?
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:07 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Gospel priority
- Replies: 97
- Views: 1992
Re: Gospel priority
Giuseppe, dating Marcion differently than your preference is not "intellectually dishonest."