Andrew,
That's a theory but it's hard to accept that IMO given the numerological interest in the narrative. I'd go so far as to say that names like "Moses" and other terminology show Hebrew was artificially developed for mystical purposes.
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- Wed Jun 17, 2015 3:29 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: The Pentateuch Written According to Kabbalah
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- Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:18 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did the Church Fathers Really Take ΙΣ = Jesus?
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Re: Did the Church Fathers Really Take ΙΣ = Jesus?
Brilliant! Thank you Andrew, much appreciated.
- Sun Jun 14, 2015 2:34 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did the Church Fathers Really Take ΙΣ = Jesus?
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Re: Did the Church Fathers Really Take ΙΣ = Jesus?
Another supportive fact is that the Christian liturgical calendar begins with Epiphany but the gospel starts on Yom Kippur some months earlier. Could there be a "pre-history" (late October to January) which didn't appear in shorter gospels which typically began with Jesus's baptism? This a...
- Sun Jun 14, 2015 10:44 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did the Church Fathers Really Take ΙΣ = Jesus?
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Re: Did the Church Fathers Really Take ΙΣ = Jesus?
Under this scenario Chrestos would represent the "right one" whatever that meant (Jesus?)
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 4:19 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did the Church Fathers Really Take ΙΣ = Jesus?
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Re: Did the Church Fathers Really Take ΙΣ = Jesus?
The text can be ignored
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 9:10 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did the Church Fathers Really Take ΙΣ = Jesus?
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Re: Did the Church Fathers Really Take ΙΣ = Jesus?
That's my problem Clive. A Platonist could not have believed that a human being could have been the perfect man. Only the perfect man could have been the perfect man
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 7:58 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did the Church Fathers Really Take ΙΣ = Jesus?
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Re: Did the Church Fathers Really Take ΙΣ = Jesus?
I too would like to know about this Platonic (are you sure it's not neo-Platonic) expectation for the coming of the perfect man. It would fit in nicely with Clement's treatment of Barnabas chapters 5 and 6. Clement seems to think that both Jews and Plato shared the expectation of the revelation of t...
- Thu Jun 11, 2015 4:50 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did the Church Fathers Really Take ΙΣ = Jesus?
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Re: Did the Church Fathers Really Take ΙΣ = Jesus?
There are many but the first thing to remember in any discussion of Alexandrian sources is the fact that it was acknowledged that the surviving source material was corrupted. When Jerome becomes a turn coat he refers to Eusebius falsifying more than Origen. Clement also comes up as a corrupted source
- Wed Jun 10, 2015 1:57 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Joseph of Arimathea.
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Re: Joseph of Arimathea.
Is Arimathea a corruption of the rest of Josephus's name?
- Wed Jun 10, 2015 1:52 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Joseph of Arimathea.
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Re: Joseph of Arimathea.
To A1 Yes all of that might be true but the fact that Peter (not Kirby) does not use the title and seems to see him attached to Jerusalem raises a number of issues. I for instance can't see how you don't come away from Peter's account not feeling Joseph was a real resident of Jerusalem, a prominent ...