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Going through Boswell's website, I notice that he had the option to add comments which I had never noticed. I randomly clicked on one to see what he would write to some in response to his posts, when I came across this: Interesting material, I arrived here looking for information about one of the im...

I must confess I know absolutely nothing regarding the nomina sacra. I don't read Greek and I don't have an interest in piecing together what abbreviations meant. It doesn't really help me. Regarding the first line in Mark, well be that as it may I think that the original line had to run something s...

Not sure if anyone here has this book https://www.amazon.com/YHWHs-Divine-Images-Cognitive-Approach/dp/162837439X the author did an interview with Mythvision podcast a couple years ago which I recently rewatched, and with all the talk around the nomina sacra I wanted to put up a thought for consider...

I hate to be pedantic about this, but I still maintain my hesitancy with latching onto a deeper meaning with the crucifixion. (Being crucified to it, as it were.) I will admit that for years I saw this as the easiest slam dunk against historicism because the cross as a symbol of life renewed and &qu...

I have a question, Giuseppe. Why would crucifixion be the method used for the celestial Christ's death?

There is of course astronomical and philosophical considerations, but why did these early adopters or creators need it to be crucifixion?

I can accept an allegorical Jesus ex doceticism being the original foundation. A word for a moment, a docetic reading would imply to me an earlier belief that was not docetic. It just doesn't daisy chain together for doceticism to be the view of Jesus's earthly appearance. The text mentioned, the ur...

Joseph, this is really ridiculous. Every day several Marcion threads are opened in this forum, the starting point of which is exactly the opposite. This forum has now become the Marcionite Speculations Forum. Sinouhe is right: some people here are really obsessed with Marcion. Not for StephenGorans...

Why must it be assumed Marcion revered Luke? Why must this always be a starting point? Prior to Irenaeus this Lucan connection never came up. Justin: Luke? Never heard of him. Papias: Luke? Who's that? Polycarp: Luke? Look at what? Hegesippus: Luke? I think my friend Theophilus knows him. No one kno...

Thinking a little bit about it. John the Baptist much??? Huh. Oh well.

I don't want to dwell on this for too long since that is a habit I am trying not to repeat. I will concede the more direct reading is spurious and stick with the mainstream one in which I don't really have anything more to say about that. From a base reading it seems to indicate to me that the Odes ...