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I made an earlier post in a similar thread here To paraphrase: Tselikas did not strictly speaking establish that the handwriting is later than the 18th century, What Tselikas did claim to establish is that although the handwriting is in one sense an 18th century Greek cursive, the scribe is not writ...

It's one thing for Marcion to say 'this was the original, that was an interpolation' when he does not know. It's another thing if Marcion originated the gospel text and wanted it to be accepted. In that case, transparency is unexpected. IMHO Marcion explicitly presented his Gospel text as a critica...

I think that Origen believed that we can discover the hidden meaning of a Gospel narrative or parable by comparing the different versions of the same pericope found in the 4 canonical Gospels.

Andrew Criddle

It's one thing for Marcion to say 'this was the original, that was an interpolation' when he does not know. It's another thing if Marcion originated the gospel text and wanted it to be accepted. In that case, transparency is unexpected. IMHO Marcion explicitly presented his Gospel text as a critica...

Early Christian Writings has Roberts-Donaldson: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/diatessaron.html Wikisource has Hope W. Hogg: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IX/The_Diatessaron_of_Tatian It was translated by Hogg and published in the Ante-Nicene_Fathers series edite...

According to Smith and Landau. Morton Smith said that he realized at Mar Saba that he had discovered a previously unknown letter of Clement against the Carpocratians. He took careful photographs which he only properly studied after leaving Palestine and arriving at Athens. This account makes it unli...

According to Paul, Jesus became Son of God at the resurrection . Christians can inherit the mantle via adoption. That would be true whether Jesus was pre-existent or not. I kinda don't get it. Hanging around at creation but not the Son? marcellus of ancyra probably taught that the word or logos of ...

Lots of Christians in the early 2nd century used the NT rather than the Jewish Bible, while still in theory accepting the authority of the Jewish Bible. Most of them found Marcion's outright rejection of the Jewish Bible unacceptable and in response they made much more use of it (allegorically inter...

Matthew Mark Luke 20.20 Then the mother of the sons of Zeb'edee came up to him, with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something 20.21 And he said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these two sons of mine may sit, one at your right hand and o...

But, are they actually letters? They seem to be artificial constructs to me. I strongly agree - they seem to be artificial constructs to me. But for purposes of answering Joseph's original question, (which was why did the letters came to rival the gospels in authority), it doesn't matter whether th...