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Could such references be to Chrestians/Chrestianos? We would need a fragment from that epoch to answer that question, which is highly unlikely. However AFAIK someone has thought or claimed that one of the papyri fragments was from Irenaeus. I don't have the reference handy but will check later, the...

http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/reviews/moss__mythof_persecution.htm Candida Moss, The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom reviewed by Robert M. Price. It seems inevitable that some will compare this fascinating revisionist history to William Arens’s The M...

In the hostile account of Peregrinus Proteus by Lucian, Peregrinus early in his carrer becomes a Christian leader in Palestine is arrested by the governor finally released leaves Christianity and continues on a controversial career before his spectacular suicide in 165 CE. Although the account is o...

AFAIK this is an open question within the field. The more people looking into it the better. Best wishes with your research.

the code (CH, CT or CHT) http://www.freeratio.org/images/smilies/spins_favs/hysterical.gif I realize that this is another of mountainman's fishing expeditions to get information he can mangle enough to develop into his answer as to why christianity exists, but we have to take our amusement where we...

http://www.mountainman.com.au/essenes/chi%20rho.htm I have taken the time to document and tabulate instances of the appearance of the Sacred Name of Christ in the historical record outside of the manuscript tradition and am sharing this tabulation with members of this forum for their comments and f...

There is another word/spelling of Christus: Chrestos , with slightly different Greek to Χριστός (I have it somewhere on a hard drive; I'll look) One means 'annointed', or 'selected'; and the other ( Chrestos ?) means 'good' (often as good slave, which is interesting given the enslavement of many in...

While nominem sacra were certainly very widespread, "AFAIK never in full" might go too far if taken to mean, actually, never in full , which would require quite an exhaustive mss. search. I haven't done such a search to verify this idea/suggestion. (I'm not trying to argue against it. A p...

I've whipped up something real nice for you all. http://peterkirby.com/a-table-of-christological-titles.html It's what you've all been waiting for... That's right! Your very own table of christological titles! It tabulates! It organizes! It's hyperlinked! Cool. It's interesting seeing at a glance s...

As for Eusubius, Richard Carrier recently commented that Eusebius seems to have been "a bit of a drip", and acquired stuff from Pamphilus of Caesarea and Origen. Thanks Mac. Yes I have read Carrier's alternative possibility .... I think the case is now pretty strong that Eusebius did inde...