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So intentionally, yet not crazy.

Intentionally or not?

Does Q count?

Chris,

If you think Tactitus got some XC info from Pliny, would this be from an unattested correspondence between them? Book 10 was published posthumously afterall.

One strong argument that IC means Jesus is the way it is used in some Septuagint papyri to render Joshua. See Hurtado Andrew Criddle Combining the NS in the NT/OT was a conscious editorial decision for the XCs and means nothing more than those particular editors wanted IC to mean Jesus and implies ...

Markus Vinzent finds it credible.

John2 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 31, 2021 12:21 pm We can either take what he says at face value (that Mark and Matthew mean the gospels that we know as they existed c. 115 CE) or we can imagine whatever else we like.

Once again, John2 meets a church father he whole-heartedly believes, second-hand even.

Thanks for the latest article reference. Thankfully JSTOR has a free limited account which allows me to read this.

maybe XCy to distinguish it from XC for clarification.

As strong? Not sure but: IC; Ihsous, Issa, Isu (one of these later two being Markionite, I should really start taking better notes) XC: Christus, Chrhstos (more than just iotacism) My hunch is these were implemented deliberately during what Trobisch calls the publication of the First Edition to sta...