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- Sun Aug 02, 2015 7:22 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: The rulers of this age.
- Replies: 28
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Re: The rulers of this age.
Ben, some further ones from Ascension of Isaiah. The ones from Chap 2 are really just variations on the Manasseh quote you have already in the OP so may not add anything, but the one in Chap 9 might be pertinent: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/ascension.html Chap 2.2. And Manasseh forso...
- Sat Aug 01, 2015 6:11 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: My review of Richard Carrier's "On the Historicity of Jesus"
- Replies: 139
- Views: 106549
Re: My review of Richard Carrier's "On the Historicity of Je
While I agree, Carrier's minimal mythicism position is that a celestial Jesus incarnated and was killed above the earth. While Carrier does state that such a Jesus could have been killed elsewhere (for example, under the earth), it's not what he argues in his book. The lack of such examples in anci...
- Sat Aug 01, 2015 9:49 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Matthew vs Levi
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15613
Re: Matthew vs Levi
Ben, the author of GMatthew would have known that he used a Greek GMark as a base. It's more likely that the name tag "Matthew" would have been given by someone who did not know that. Look at you, Joe, arguing for a more innocent stream of transmission while I am arguing for the equivalen...
- Sat Aug 01, 2015 8:28 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Matthew vs Levi
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15613
Re: Matthew vs Levi
You are guessing that the original author of GMatthew titled it *Matthew*? No. I am suggesting that the author passed it off as a Greek translation of Hebrew Matthew. A title is not necessarily required for attribution; many attributed Hebrews to Paul, for example, despite neither the text nor the ...
- Sat Aug 01, 2015 6:49 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Matthew vs Levi
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15613
Re: Matthew vs Levi
What is the significance of the fact that "the tax collector" is called Matthew, not Levi, in Matthew's gospel? Could it have played a role in the original association of the first Gospel with Matthew? It has been suggested that Justin Martyr, though familiar with the gospels, was not awa...
- Sat Aug 01, 2015 4:29 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Crucifixion of a slave?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 21890
Re: Crucifixion of a slave?
I agree with this.andrewcriddle wrote:This would seem to require 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 to be an interpolation.
(Theoretically one could imagine a Jewish slave of a Jewish master crucified by his master in contravention of Jewish halakah, but it seems unlikely.)
- Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:50 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Question about the Farrer Hypthesis and Judas
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2511
Re: Question about the Farrer Hypthesis and Judas
Is there a theory under the Farrer Hypothesis for why Luke might have changed Matthew's death narrative for Judas? Luke's intention seems to be to remove Judas' repentance. In Matthew. Judas repents, gives the money back and kills himself. In Acts, there is no implication of repentance, Judas does ...
- Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:36 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The date of 1 Timothy.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3157
The date of 1 Timothy.
If passages such as 1 Thessalonians 4.15 (in which the author seems to expect to be alive at the parousia ) are clues that the Pauline epistles were really written while Paul was still alive, then does 1 Timothy offer a clue that this pastoral epistle was written while Timothy was still alive? 1 Tim...
- Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:25 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Crucifixion of a slave?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 21890
Re: Crucifixion of a slave?
Right. So do you think it possible that Paul and his circle discovered from such passages that Jesus was actually a slave or servant in a sense literal enough both to prove consonant with crucifixion and to provide a master who might do the crucifying, as opposed to state authorities? At least in t...
- Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:02 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Crucifixion of a slave?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 21890
Re: Crucifixion of a slave?
It may be significant that the first epistle to Timothy both acknowledges the role of Pontius Pilate (6.13) and also simultaneously sheds some of the abovementioned Pauline and Petrine naïveté concerning rulers; 1 Timothy 2.1-2 NASB: 1 First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petition...