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§ 2. Confession. ᾽Εξομολόγησις. Great stress is laid by Cyril on the necessity not only of sincere inward repentance, but also of open confession. The words ξομολογεῖσθαι, ἐξομολόγησις have a twofold meaning and a wide application. (1.) In the Septuagint they occur very frequently, especially in the...

exomologoumenos in the writings of the Church Fathers: Such are the words and deeds by which, in our own district of the Rhone, they have deluded many women, who have their consciences seared as with a hot iron.(1) Some of them, indeed, make a public confession [exomologoumenos] of their sins; but o...

Judas is understood to have been the crucified one in the Islamic Pseudepigrapha and I think there are a number of good reasons for believing that the Western gospel narrative was ultimately changed to obscure this fact. Consider for a moment the very early and very strong tradition that Judas's nam...

Yeah it's crazy but he's really smart demonstrating again that common sense doesn't always come with erudition.

You might have an easier time arguing that someone wanted us to think that rather than this was the state of affairs (i.e. as an editorial feature to imply the New Testament was a closed set of writings of a unified Church cf. Trobisch First Edition of the New Testament). I think trying to argue tha...

When you get to the core of Christianity it's Jewish (not surprisingly) but orthodox Christianity pretends that it was focused on 'the Gentiles' so there's this disconnect. So what do scholars do? I don't know but somehow they try to reconcile a series of claims in texts which are acknowledged in an...

You know, non-Jewish. 'Blanche' in French, 'Mzungu' in ki-Swahili. The hegemony which ruled the part of the world 'it/them' inhabited for most of the last 2000 years and imposed its will and somehow pretends that Christianity's embrace of 'it/them' is coincidental.

There's a French book that I have that connects Judah's confession as a 'spiritual' confession even a 'perfect' one which I think connects to the description of the Gospel of Judas in Irenaeus.

Clearly Peter's argument here requires us to abandon any of the stupid 'white' suppositions about pagan myths and the like being at the heart of the gospel narrative (via allegory). I recommend all those unfamiliar with the depth of 'historical allegory' in tradition Judaism spend some time familiar...

The identification of Judas as 'the confessor of God' goes back beyond Didymus through the Alexandrian Christian back to Philo and ultimately the author of the Book of Revelations. Rev. 2: 9, " I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and are not" It is by many supposed that re...