Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

Order to arrest a Chrestian: 28 February, AD 256: http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/POxy/VExhibition/daily_life/arrest_christian.html Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3035: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_Oxyrhynchus_3035 The order was issued by the head of the Oxyrhynchus ruling council, to the police in a c...

With respect to where the martyrdom "legends" fit in to the overall picture it is interesting to note that there appears to be the following chronological sequence of genre in the history of Christian related literature (ignoring any actual dates): * DRAFT Chronological Sequence of Authors...

The first thing worth noticing in Against the Galileans is that the author(s) assume the reader already knows what is being referred to, and knows the definition of these "Galileans", requiring no introductory information at all .... Julian had introduced a law in the empire by which the ...

The Passing of Peregrinus is well established in the canon of Lucian. The intro to it in volume 5 of Harmon's translation makes that eminently clear. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=SbVfAAAAMAAJ&q=canon Culture and society in Lucian, C. P. Jones, Christopher Prestige Jones Harvard Universit...

Could such references be to Chrestians/Chrestianos? We would need a fragment from that epoch to answer that question, which is highly unlikely. However AFAIK someone has thought or claimed that one of the papyri fragments was from Irenaeus. I don't have the reference handy but will check later, the...

http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/reviews/moss__mythof_persecution.htm Candida Moss, The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom reviewed by Robert M. Price. It seems inevitable that some will compare this fascinating revisionist history to William Arens’s The M...

In the hostile account of Peregrinus Proteus by Lucian, Peregrinus early in his carrer becomes a Christian leader in Palestine is arrested by the governor finally released leaves Christianity and continues on a controversial career before his spectacular suicide in 165 CE. Although the account is o...

AFAIK this is an open question within the field. The more people looking into it the better. Best wishes with your research.

the code (CH, CT or CHT) http://www.freeratio.org/images/smilies/spins_favs/hysterical.gif I realize that this is another of mountainman's fishing expeditions to get information he can mangle enough to develop into his answer as to why christianity exists, but we have to take our amusement where we...

http://www.mountainman.com.au/essenes/chi%20rho.htm I have taken the time to document and tabulate instances of the appearance of the Sacred Name of Christ in the historical record outside of the manuscript tradition and am sharing this tabulation with members of this forum for their comments and f...