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by StephenGoranson
Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:26 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Personification of Group Dynamics: Mishmarot Problem or Christian?
Replies: 6
Views: 215

Re: Personification of Group Dynamics: Mishmarot Problem or Christian?

CW, you assert that "John is of Bilgah" and that "the 'Jesus' character is of Immer."
But you have not established either.
by StephenGoranson
Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:43 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Replies: 113
Views: 2535

Re: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article

here's a snippet from Sabar's article: "....Scholars who knew him well suspect that whatever triggered his break with the Church was the key to understanding his life and work, even if—perhaps especially if—Smith never spoke of it. The historian Albert Baumgarten, who was one of Smith’s first d...
by StephenGoranson
Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:11 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Meaning of Nazareth?
Replies: 113
Views: 97037

Re: Meaning of Nazareth?

Ok, you wonder. Any actual evidence?
by StephenGoranson
Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:12 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Letter to Theodore (an anti-Carpocratian text)
Replies: 2
Views: 163

Re: Letter to Theodore (an anti-Carpocratian text)

The Strange Significance of the Name Carpocrates in Early Christian Polemic JBL 142/4 (2023) 717-733 Michael Pope Grant Adamson abstract "In this philological study we establish and reckon with the fact that the name Carpocrates was exceedingly rare and strange in antiquity. The rarity, we argu...
by StephenGoranson
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:02 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Ancient biographies and letter collections
Replies: 3
Views: 336

Re: Ancient biographies and letter collections

JSNT 31.3(2009): 279-299, Peter Head on named letter-carriers among the Oxyrhynchus papyri. Abstract: "This paper analyses the role played by named letter-carriers among Greek personal letters in the Oxyrhynchus papyri as possible background for Pauline practice, and within the context of recen...
by StephenGoranson
Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:43 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Replies: 113
Views: 2535

Re: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article

For example, "Secret Alias" asserted, Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:54 am,
that "you accept the idea that homosexuality = criminality"

On what basis?
by StephenGoranson
Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:43 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Replies: 113
Views: 2535

Re: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article

i wrote, above, Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:10 am
"You, SA, have misrepresented what I "accept."
No written notice taken of that, while plowing on.
Just another day, to you, at your office?
by StephenGoranson
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:23 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Meaning of Nazareth?
Replies: 113
Views: 97037

Re: Meaning of Nazareth?

You say you know what Mark really intended. Huh.
by StephenGoranson
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:10 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Replies: 113
Views: 2535

Re: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article

You, SA, have misrepresented what I "accept."
by StephenGoranson
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:48 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Was Josephus a Turncoat?
Replies: 20
Views: 708

Re: Was Josephus a Turncoat?

Yes, Josephus was a turncoat.

added: though not only that.