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- Sun Nov 13, 2016 6:51 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: New *proposed* ink dating: "Jesus Wife" 200 AD (?!)
- Replies: 1
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New *proposed* ink dating: "Jesus Wife" 200 AD (?!)
Harvard Crimson: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/11/11/papyrus-christianity-divinity-school/ No peer-reviewed publication is mentioned there. Commentary by Harvard Classics Prof. Emeritus Christopher Jones: https://www.academia.edu/29812018/The_Gospel_of_Jesus_Wife_redux?auto=download A prev...
- Sat Nov 12, 2016 6:00 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Elaboration on the Flight to Pella
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6802
Re: Elaboration on the Flight to Pella
Did Eusebius (as Giuseppe apparently suggested two posts above) invent the flight to Pella, leaving a reader without help to find a parallel with Pella in Macedonia and conquering the world from there (rather than Jerusalem and Rome)? Did Brandon 1951:169 mistakenly claim that Pella in Jordan was fo...
- Thu Nov 10, 2016 7:46 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Elaboration on the Flight to Pella
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6802
Re: Elaboration on the Flight to Pella
A flight to the east of the Jordan might not be unprecedented. Earlier, according to Qumran mss, there was a flight to "the land of Damascus."
- Thu Nov 03, 2016 7:29 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- Replies: 39
- Views: 24674
Re: Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Thanks Ken. Taylor's dissertation is fine, but it also could be seen, to some extent, as an "academic corrective," minimizing both what might be called "Jewish Christianity" as well as continuity of some traditions against what could be seen as the maximalizing school of Bellarmino Baggati ofm. I fi...
- Thu Nov 03, 2016 5:30 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- Replies: 39
- Views: 24674
Re: Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Note than Joan E. Taylor changed her mind between her 1989 dissertation cited by Annabel J. Wharton (in the post immediately above) and her 1998 NTS article (cited 8 posts above).
- Wed Nov 02, 2016 1:16 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- Replies: 39
- Views: 24674
Re: Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Perhaps of interest to some readers: Joan Taylor, Golgatha: A Reconsideration of the Evidence for the Sites of Jesus' Crucifixion and Burial, New Testament Studies 44 (1998) 180-203, which uses Melito of Sardis among other sources. Abstract: In this study Golgotha is defined as the area of a disused...
- Wed Nov 02, 2016 1:06 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Hebrew papyrus from the 8th c. BCE?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6654
Re: Hebrew papyrus from the 8th c. BCE?
Christopher Rollston has commented further (Nov. 1) on the "Jerusalem papyrus" (and also added a paragraph, VII, on ink, to his previous post):
http://www.rollstonepigraphy.com/
http://www.rollstonepigraphy.com/
- Mon Oct 31, 2016 6:28 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The evolution of christian cultic vocabulary
- Replies: 65
- Views: 13096
Re: The evolution of christian cultic vocabulary
These are discussed in, among other places:
Title Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament. English.
Title Theological dictionary of the New Testament. Translator and editor: Geoffrey W. Bromiley.
Published Grand Rapids, Mich., Eerdmans c1964-c1976.
Title Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament. English.
Title Theological dictionary of the New Testament. Translator and editor: Geoffrey W. Bromiley.
Published Grand Rapids, Mich., Eerdmans c1964-c1976.
- Mon Oct 31, 2016 6:24 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Hebrew papyrus from the 8th c. BCE?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6654
Re: Hebrew papyrus from the 8th c. BCE?
Jerusalem Post comments: "Moreover, without presenting any evidence, Maeir alleged that the thieves may have forged the writing on an authentic papyri, with the goal of charging exorbitant fees on the international black market, where similar findings can garner over $1 million." http://www.jpost.co...
- Sat Oct 29, 2016 6:58 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: New Qumran Scrolls
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7719
Re: New Qumran Scrolls
The hamhigh report (or advertisement?) above says 4 fragments. The mirror says 5 fragments. The last link has photos of fragments (unpromising and on first impression overpriced), "unstudied and unmarketed until 2016." "3 fragments and 2 fragment sets, totaling 15 fragments...likely Greek or Hebrew....