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- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Easter, Eostre
- Replies: 11
- Views: 537
Re: Easter, Eostre
Etymology is interesting to me. I have published on etymology. People offer etymologies, but they are sometimes mistaken. Was Bede an expert etymologist? Even if so, no etymologist is always correct, as far as I know. When did that pagan festival begin? Are two similar words ever confused? Is the na...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:33 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
- Replies: 99
- Views: 1651
Re: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
If David Flusser, who was quite smart, said Smith excused himself by saying he could not marry a Catholic, maybe that is true. Hypothesizing he meant Jewish when he reportedly said Catholic is not yet persuasive. Of course Smith had relationships with women. So what. Wild, unreliable, guess: "S...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1483
Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
Why would either reading greatly change the overall facts? In other words, has the significance been, somewhere, exaggerated?
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
- Replies: 99
- Views: 1651
Re: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
Thanks gdoudna for that additional information. Though I think M. Smith was gay (or, bi), that is not at all the main issue for scholarship. People of whatever sexual orientation can contribute to learning. M. Smith surely did. The issue for historians is whether the Letter to Theodore is genuine Cl...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Melchizedek 11Q13
- Replies: 8
- Views: 236
Re: Melchizedek 11Q13
Wasn't that hymn written before Christianity existed?
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:54 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
- Replies: 99
- Views: 1651
Re: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
If we trust the published (by BAR) words of Agamemnon Tselikas, rather than hearsay, he stated that the writing in the 1646 Voss book was a modern imitation of older writing, probably done by Morton Smith or an accomplice of Smith, and Smith brought the Voss book (presumably already inscribed) to Ma...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:32 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Easter, Eostre
- Replies: 11
- Views: 537
Re: Easter, Eostre
According to the long etymology discussion given in the Oxford English Dictionary, it's more complicated. Here is a small portion of that etymology entry: Bede (De Temporum Ratione 15. 9: see quot. below) derives the word < Eostre (a Northumbrian spelling; also Eastre in a variant reading), accordin...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What is the source of this quote: "not protesting against himself being good"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 185
Re: What is the source of this quote: "not protesting against himself being good"
I try to understand. If my posts and publications do not suggest such to you, I'm not sure what it would take.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What is the source of this quote: "not protesting against himself being good"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 185
Re: What is the source of this quote: "not protesting against himself being good"
"venom"?
I just am not persuaded. Is that allowed?
I just am not persuaded. Is that allowed?
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What is the source of this quote: "not protesting against himself being good"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 185
Re: What is the source of this quote: "not protesting against himself being good"
I don't follow your proposed reasoning, CW.