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This part in Blue comes across to me as sounding like Gnosticism, wherein people exist in some heavenly, spiritual, or immateril realm and then when they enter the material world they incur death and suffering. I don't know if you can find some Christian non-Gnostic "Proto-Gnostic" or Pla...

I agree there's not much to go on here to connect these fragments to the Preaching The main connection that I see is between the similarity of keywords between the "Book of Anunciation" and Clement's quote from the Preaching of Peter in Quote #6 that I listed, about how God created all th...

It is quite interesting Ben I guess. Eugenia said that some of the scripture quotes contain unusual readings she did do an amazing job of this Would look forward to what you make of it! Here's the suspected Preaching of Peter references, some are more certain than others It appears the author accep...

This Papyrus is discussed in: "THE BERLIN “COPTIC BOOK” (P 20915): A RESTORED EARLY CHRISTIAN THEOLOGICAL TREATISE" by Gesine Robinson A so-called Coptic Book, a fourth century papyrus codex belonging to the papyrus collection of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin, has finally been published, c...

It's likely that Epiphanius is preserving the beginning of a gospel in Pan. 30.13.2-3, with the way that it introduces Jesus & the author. This introduction of Jesus makes sense as a start. And the reference to twelve apostles helps explain alternate titles for this gospel. But then this means ...

Thanks for sharing Jones' excerpt, Ben.

Your sources seem unanimous that Pliny used Mucianus mainly for his statements about strange, fantastical, and unusual phenomena (such as springs which always taste of wine). How would this tendency apply to the name of a tetrarchy in Syria? The Short Answer is: Most sources that I cited do not say...

Ben C. Smith wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 9:48 am
Do you have the 2002 article he references in which he apparently makes this argument? If so, what does he say?

Kokkinos wrote to me "Unfortunately, my article on the city of Mariamme does not exist in electronic form, so you have to order it from an academic library. "

In an essay, "The Location of Tarichaea," a city in Galilee destroyed in 66 AD, which Pliny described, Nikos Kokkinos writes that Pliny was using the governor of Syria in the mid-late 1st century AD as his source on Galilee's geography: Little doubt may remain as to whether Tarichaea woul...

Bernard Muller wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 10:05 am This Pliny is Pliny the Elder, not Pliny the Younger, isn't it?

Correct.