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- Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Distinguishing some questions about the "Letter to Theodore"
- Replies: 104
- Views: 783
Re: Distinguishing some questions about the "Letter to Theodore"
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...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Antitheses and the origin of Luke
- Replies: 27
- Views: 385
Re: The Antitheses and the origin of Luke
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...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:50 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Origen's interesting ideas
- Replies: 13
- Views: 263
Re: Origen's interesting ideas
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
Andrew Criddle
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Antitheses and the origin of Luke
- Replies: 27
- Views: 385
Re: The Antitheses and the origin of Luke
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...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:54 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Who translated The Diatessaron of Tatian into English?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 33
Re: Who translated The Diatessaron of Tatian into English?
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...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:13 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Greek Monks Who Thought the Letter to Theodore was in the Mar Saba Monastery Before Morton Smith Arrives
- Replies: 200
- Views: 1730
Re: Greek Monks Who Thought the Letter to Theodore was in the Mar Saba Monastery Before Morton Smith Arrives
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...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:12 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Is 'called Christ' in Ant 20:200 a Christian gloss just as 'born by woman' is a Catholic gloss in Gal 4:4?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 227
Re: Is 'called Christ' in Ant 20:200 a Christian gloss just as 'born by woman' is a Catholic gloss in Gal 4:4?
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 ...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:35 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Implications of Marcion for early Christianity?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 604
Re: Implications of Marcion for early Christianity?
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...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:17 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: a neglected Marcionite gospel reference
- Replies: 21
- Views: 316
Re: a neglected Marcionite gospel reference
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...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:00 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Letters as a unique Christian genre
- Replies: 11
- Views: 353
Re: Letters as a unique Christian genre
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...