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by maryhelena
Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:19 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Was Josephus a Christian?
Replies: 107
Views: 1731

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...
by maryhelena
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...
by maryhelena
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...
by maryhelena
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...
by maryhelena
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...
by maryhelena
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...
by maryhelena
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 pm
maryhelena 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.... ;)
Who knows if there isn't tension between the two. This could get tricky ;)
:thumbup:
by maryhelena
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...
by maryhelena
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...
by maryhelena
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...