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- Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:19 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Was Josephus a Christian?
- Replies: 107
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Re: Was Josephus a Christian?
As for the TF.... Wikipedia ....a minority of scholars have put forward arguments to the effect that the entire Testimonium is a Christian interpolation. For example, Kenneth Olson has argued that the entire Testimonium must have been forged by Eusebius himself, basing his argument on textual simila...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:29 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Was Josephus a Christian?
- Replies: 107
- Views: 1731
Re: Was Josephus a Christian?
Keep in mind that: 1. For Josephus, God had abandoned Jerusalem and the Temple because of the wickedness of high priests and robbers, killing people even in the Temple. 2. Josephus records a story where God seems to have literally abandoned the Temple. According to Josephus: "Moreover, at that...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Was Josephus a Christian?
- Replies: 107
- Views: 1731
Re: Was Josephus a Christian?
I don't think so, and neither did Origen ("though not believing in Jesus as Christ"), which seals the deal for me. But I take issue with the idea that Josephus "couldn't have" been a Christian (or written the TF) because he was Jewish. Early Jewish Christians didn't stop being J...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:12 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
- Replies: 120
- Views: 4778
Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
I am interested in the study of heresy, history of heresy, names for heresy, etc. I discussed such, for example in "Others and Intra-Jewish Polemic as Reflected in Qumran Texts" https://people.duke.edu/~goranson/Essenes_&_Others.pdf Everyone--sure, me too--from one point of view of an...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:18 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
- Replies: 120
- Views: 4778
Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
As far as the ones mentioned above that I know, your specific interpretation is accepted by none. Interpretation is not a static exercise. In fact it's the very essence of Christianity. Are you seriously attempting to close the door on interpretation? To put a stop to heresy, to, in modern terms, c...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:27 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
- Replies: 120
- Views: 4778
Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
If I may ask, is there anyone, real name, who accepts your long-proposed version of history, so I can read that? Stephan, connecting the Jesus story to Hasmonean history is not something new. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71-GondIOvL._SL1500_.jpg Mead discusses the Toledot Yeshu and Epiphaniu...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Basic reason why the name of Pilate was absent in the Earliest Passion Story extrapolated from Mark
- Replies: 206
- Views: 4593
Re: Basic reason why the name of Pilate was absent in the Earliest Passion Story extrapolated from Mark
Kunigunde Kreuzerin wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:01 pmWho knows if there isn't tension between the two. This could get trickymaryhelena wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:59 am Perhaps she would need to listen to what his mother had to say before she puts her own account into print....
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:13 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
- Replies: 120
- Views: 4778
Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
Declaring Hasmonean history, at a 100 year or so remove, as more important than Herodian history for NT history evidently slights Herodian history. I wonder what Josephus would say to that ... :shock: I am of the chief family of that first course also; nay, further, by my mother I am of the royal b...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:59 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Basic reason why the name of Pilate was absent in the Earliest Passion Story extrapolated from Mark
- Replies: 206
- Views: 4593
Re: Basic reason why the name of Pilate was absent in the Earliest Passion Story extrapolated from Mark
Nevertheless, there are currently many who are developing theories according to which the original is exactly what they particularly like. And I'll stick with it that it would be exactly the same, if I were to develop some feminist theory that Mary Magdalene wrote the first gospel. Perhaps she woul...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:10 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
- Replies: 120
- Views: 4778
Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
Christ Crucified painting by Diego Velázquez (1632) ===================================== https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Cristo_crucificado.jpg/540px-Cristo_crucificado.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Crucified_(Vel%C3%A1zquez) This image is at the very core of wh...