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If Eusebius is the corrupter of the Testimonium, to enable himself to quote his own corruption for apologetic purposes, what number and geographic distribution of manuscripts would he have needed to corrupt, and how could he be confident that the manuscript record would eliminate the transmission c...

If Eusebius is the corrupter of the Testimonium, to enable himself to quote his own corruption for apologetic purposes, what number and geographic distribution of manuscripts would he have needed to corrupt, and how could he be confident that the manuscript record would eliminate the transmission ch...

It is several years since I read Farmer's work on Matthean priority. Yes this post is about Matthean posteriority yet I find It telling that one can make a reasonable justification for almost any Gospel development dependency graph imaginable In my view, the question of dependency won't be answered ...

The documentary pedigree of Christian origins is highly consistent, from the earliest fragments of papyri, to the earliest complete manuscripts, to the present day. Not sure what is meant by "highly consistent" in this context. There are many diverse texts. Simply that the NT as we know i...

IIUC you are dubious about the integrity of our present text of 1 Clement. However, I was not claiming that 1 Clement provides conclusive evidence of early knowledge of Paul, my point was that it (and other works) provides enough prima facie evidence of early knowledge of Paul to counter your conce...

What you wrote here are unevidenced assertions. Again you need to decide when gMatthew was written: before Justin or by Irenaeus around 180. Cordially, Bernard We have no extant manuscripts of hypothesized predecessors to Matthew's gospel. We have extant papyri witnesses to Matthew's gospel dated t...

ah i get what you mean but what if individual churches produced and used these writings, separated in location from others. churches that would later be brought together under a more centralised rule. I strongly doubt that to be the case. Firstly, the term "church" is problematic. I don't...

Everyone's got a take. Is it a “take”? I thought it was four issues worth noting: 1. It deliberately draws attention to the subject it says it wants silenced. 2. It uses honesty when lying would have been safer. 3. It blatantly reveals contents it itself describes as hidden and guarded. 4. It descr...

The suggestion that discourses of Papias were extant in the middle ages should possibly be reckoned with in this thread. That was discussed in this thread: http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4115&hilit=zahn+papias And courtesy of Ben, this link: http://hypotyposeis.org/weblog...

This shows at the very least that someone in the second century wanted to believe that the Roman church had preeminence in the first century. And that's quite incredible. We don't know whether Justin Martyr had access to the Paulina, an "orthodox" canon did not exist until 180 AD (?), yet...