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Severus is probably the author of the homily attributed to Gregory of Nyssa.

See ...reception of Ad Marinum

Andrew Criddle

We are addressing two different concepts in this thread. History is understood as explanatory or descriptive narrative. But there is also the understanding of history as getting basic facts right. Court trials etc are of course different in many respects from historical research. Though there is on...

From my own experience of the secure sections of an academic library, (which may be a bad parallel), the surveillance is intended to prevent the damage or removal of material. It would probably not prevent the unauthorised addition of an extra book to a shelf of books.

Andrew Criddle

I find the following argument interesting, but I'm not sure how strong it is. There is a deliberate parallelism and contrast between Luke 1:41-45 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 And she cried out with a loud voi...

I find the following argument interesting, but I'm not sure how strong it is. There is a deliberate parallelism and contrast between Luke 1:41-45 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 And she cried out with a loud voic...

Very early interpolations have to be argued for entirely on internal evidence Why? (It point is a secondary one to the method I am attempting to argue for, but it's still of special interest since it sounds like another one of those idiosyncratic rules biblical scholars make to enable them to get t...

However in 1 Corinthians 9:5 Paul says Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? i.e. 'brother of the Lord' is a phrase that Paul uses, leaving us without good internal evidence to doubt the authenticity of the p...

Hi Neil On comparing your article with that of Tim Widowfield, I noticed that IIUC you are both doubtful about whether 'the Lord's brother' is original in Galatians but with rather different scenarios. Tim appears to be suggesting a 1st century CE gloss or interpolation while use seem to be suggesti...

I have called Bernard's method "proof-texted" historical reconstruction. It is not Bernard's method, of course, but the method that is generally used by much of the academy of biblical scholars who write about Christian origins. It does involve a real critical evaluation of the data -- no...

Most of the Gnostic accounts of Jesus are accounts of Jesus' teaching, sometimes his teaching between his resurrection and ascension. IMHO although this material is intended to be true to Jesus as the (gnostic) writer understood him, it is mostly not intended as an account of what Jesus said in his ...