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by Irish1975
Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:38 am
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: Massive New Biography of Spinoza by J. Israel
Replies: 3
Views: 9545

Massive New Biography of Spinoza by J. Israel

Jonathan I. Israel Spinoza: Life & Legacy Oxford UP 2023 21 years ago, Jonathan Israel—professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies—revolutionized the history of secularism and modernity with his book Radical Enlightenment (2002), which argued that Spinoza’s two great books of the 1670s ( Tr...
by Irish1975
Wed Sep 06, 2023 8:33 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Introducing the Naassenes, an early Christian Identity
Replies: 12
Views: 8715

Re: Introducing the Naassenes, an early Christian Identity

So, one of the ways that I conceive, and I try to reconceive of, the debate between Orthodoxy and Heresy is it's really, it's not about Orthodoxy and Heresy: it's about a theology that is rejected and a theology that is accepted: it's about Rome versus Alexandria: it's about Rome's reaction to Alex...
by Irish1975
Wed Sep 06, 2023 8:00 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A good overview of early Christian orthodoxy?
Replies: 10
Views: 8401

Re: A good overview of early Christian orthodoxy?

Charles Freeman’s 381 AD
by Irish1975
Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:13 am
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: An eBay Steal!
Replies: 2
Views: 20110

Re: An eBay Steal!

Ah the weight of empire sits heavy on Albion’s shoulders. “You don’t have to be an expert to understand that such objects [as the Parthenon marbles] belong to the countries of origin. These objects were taken without these nations being asked,” he says. Historically, he says, the British Museum’s ar...
by Irish1975
Thu Aug 24, 2023 7:11 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Toward the New Testament Canon as Fourth-Century Invention
Replies: 5
Views: 389

Re: Toward the New Testament Canon as Fourth-Century Invention

It’s an extremely confused and therefore exasperating topic. The fundies want to come up with some magic notion of « canon » in order to justify their fanaticism, and so they try to cram it into the historical record. The NT existed as an « edition » long before its contents were debated. The church...
by Irish1975
Wed Aug 23, 2023 2:09 pm
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare
Replies: 14
Views: 27252

Re: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare

Mary Sydney is the primary female candidate. But a book title is not a “claim.” Read the book or don’t, I’m not here to debate.

Lewis Lapham has a good podcast interview with her at “the world in time.”
by Irish1975
Tue Aug 22, 2023 6:33 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Paul's letters: early/Marcion's and later/canonical side-by-side
Replies: 9
Views: 752

Re: Paul's letters: early/Marcion's and later/canonical side-by-side

Big thanks and congratulations to Mark Bilby for producing and sharing this document. It is extremely valuable (for curious minds) to have this side-by-side comparison. The data charts in the introduction are especially useful.

I plan to give this a lot of attention!

🔥🔥🔥
by Irish1975
Tue Aug 22, 2023 5:47 am
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare
Replies: 14
Views: 27252

Re: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare

Thanks for posting that vid 👍.

Winkler is no dummy.
by Irish1975
Mon Aug 21, 2023 3:48 pm
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare
Replies: 14
Views: 27252

Re: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare

I am a committed skeptic on this topic and on similar problems of historical fact. When the evidence is chaotic, suspicious, mixed, or inconclusive, and especially when there are weighty ideological interests and « identities » hanging in the balance (usually of a religious or political nature), I t...
by Irish1975
Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:00 am
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare
Replies: 14
Views: 27252

Re: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare

StephenGoranson wrote: Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:16 am Unless I am mistaken, Ben Jonson (1572-1637), a poet and playwright, knew Shakespeare and wrote about him.
Well that settles it!

What a pity that Simon & Schuster published this absurdity, and that I wasted an Audible credit and many hours.