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by dengen
Wed Jun 10, 2015 5:17 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Historicity of Paul, apostle and letter-writer
Replies: 87
Views: 44487

Re: Historicity of Paul, apostle and letter-writer

Paul does not belong to any such class. Paul thus falls into the class of ordinary persons who wrote letters and had effects on history. [skip] To challenge that starting point, you need to show that Paul belongs to a reference class whose members are most often mythical (or at least half of whose ...
by dengen
Wed May 13, 2015 7:08 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: New discovered Roman amulet mixes Christian and pagan imager
Replies: 16
Views: 17178

Re: New discovered Roman amulet mixes Christian and pagan im

Thank you for the proper link to the actual article StephenGoranson. The synopsis from the USA periodical is valuable,--thanks Mr. MacSon-- but, in my opinion, omits a couple of useful points--Why would the USA authors overlook them? Here's the abstract from the actual article: Magical amulet from P...
by dengen
Fri May 08, 2015 2:01 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Gospel of Mark and Propp's Morphology
Replies: 40
Views: 25207

Re: Gospel of Mark and Propp's Morphology

Another difficulty is that the gospels , and especially Mark, are so often very compressed narratives. In a thread exploring relationships of individual words, it may prove useful to distinguish the two different meanings of the English word, "gospel". In Mark 1:1 Neil translated the Gree...
by dengen
Mon May 04, 2015 1:42 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Irenaeus of Lyons (yes, "Lyons"). TransMission E-Missions
Replies: 24
Views: 22232

Re: Irenaeus of Lyons (yes, "Lyons"). TransMission E-Mission

That is a very impressive summary, Joe. Well done. agree, but would have been even better with a link to Greek text demonstrating absence of highlighted English translation. Might I add that in Against Heresies 3.11.8 Irenaeus quotes Mark 1.1 again (very top of the righthand column), but this time ...