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- Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:38 am
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: Massive New Biography of Spinoza by J. Israel
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9546
Massive New Biography of Spinoza by J. Israel
Jonathan I. Israel Spinoza: Life & Legacy Oxford UP 2023 21 years ago, Jonathan Israel—professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies—revolutionized the history of secularism and modernity with his book Radical Enlightenment (2002), which argued that Spinoza’s two great books of the 1670s ( Tr...
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 8:33 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Introducing the Naassenes, an early Christian Identity
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8716
Re: Introducing the Naassenes, an early Christian Identity
So, one of the ways that I conceive, and I try to reconceive of, the debate between Orthodoxy and Heresy is it's really, it's not about Orthodoxy and Heresy: it's about a theology that is rejected and a theology that is accepted: it's about Rome versus Alexandria: it's about Rome's reaction to Alex...
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 8:00 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A good overview of early Christian orthodoxy?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8401
Re: A good overview of early Christian orthodoxy?
Charles Freeman’s 381 AD
- Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:13 am
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: An eBay Steal!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 20111
Re: An eBay Steal!
Ah the weight of empire sits heavy on Albion’s shoulders. “You don’t have to be an expert to understand that such objects [as the Parthenon marbles] belong to the countries of origin. These objects were taken without these nations being asked,” he says. Historically, he says, the British Museum’s ar...
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 7:11 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Toward the New Testament Canon as Fourth-Century Invention
- Replies: 5
- Views: 390
Re: Toward the New Testament Canon as Fourth-Century Invention
It’s an extremely confused and therefore exasperating topic. The fundies want to come up with some magic notion of « canon » in order to justify their fanaticism, and so they try to cram it into the historical record. The NT existed as an « edition » long before its contents were debated. The church...
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 2:09 pm
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare
- Replies: 14
- Views: 27255
Re: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare
Mary Sydney is the primary female candidate. But a book title is not a “claim.” Read the book or don’t, I’m not here to debate.
Lewis Lapham has a good podcast interview with her at “the world in time.”
Lewis Lapham has a good podcast interview with her at “the world in time.”
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 6:33 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Paul's letters: early/Marcion's and later/canonical side-by-side
- Replies: 9
- Views: 752
Re: Paul's letters: early/Marcion's and later/canonical side-by-side
Big thanks and congratulations to Mark Bilby for producing and sharing this document. It is extremely valuable (for curious minds) to have this side-by-side comparison. The data charts in the introduction are especially useful.
I plan to give this a lot of attention!
I plan to give this a lot of attention!
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 5:47 am
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare
- Replies: 14
- Views: 27255
Re: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare
Thanks for posting that vid .
Winkler is no dummy.
Winkler is no dummy.
- Mon Aug 21, 2023 3:48 pm
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare
- Replies: 14
- Views: 27255
Re: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare
I am a committed skeptic on this topic and on similar problems of historical fact. When the evidence is chaotic, suspicious, mixed, or inconclusive, and especially when there are weighty ideological interests and « identities » hanging in the balance (usually of a religious or political nature), I t...
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:00 am
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare
- Replies: 14
- Views: 27255
Re: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare
Well that settles it!StephenGoranson wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:16 am Unless I am mistaken, Ben Jonson (1572-1637), a poet and playwright, knew Shakespeare and wrote about him.
What a pity that Simon & Schuster published this absurdity, and that I wasted an Audible credit and many hours.