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by andrewcriddle
Sat May 13, 2017 1:49 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Ba'al and Yahweh.
Replies: 12
Views: 16338

Re: Ba'al and Yahweh.

..................................... 5. Ba'al is a dying and rising god. Day writes on pages 116-118: I hope to demonstrate that the first clear reference to the literal resurrection of the dead in the Old Testament in Dan. 12.2 is a reinterpretation of the verse in Isa. 26.19 about resurrection, ...
by andrewcriddle
Sat May 13, 2017 1:16 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Ancient mystery cults.
Replies: 9
Views: 15228

Re: Ancient mystery cults.

....................................................... If, as seems highly probable, the letter is inauthentic then it is likely to be a deliberate anti-Christian hoax, like a lot of other material in the Augustan Histories. I'm aware the Augustan Histories are considered to be dubious histories, ...
by andrewcriddle
Thu May 11, 2017 11:09 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A mythicohistorical (hybrid) approach to Christian origins.
Replies: 176
Views: 105065

Re: A mythicohistorical (hybrid) approach to Christian origi

I'm giving references for Baal and Inana I'll try and clarify my difficulty. It is quite possible that there was a Jewish myth in which Yahweh in primeval times battled with the forces of death and/or entered the realm of death, was initially defeated but finally victorious, in a way paralleled by ...
by andrewcriddle
Thu May 11, 2017 10:51 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Ancient mystery cults.
Replies: 9
Views: 15228

Re: Ancient mystery cults.

Hippolytus on the Naassenes is relevant.
As is this passage from Clement of Alexandria

Andrew Criddle
by andrewcriddle
Thu May 11, 2017 10:45 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Ancient mystery cults.
Replies: 9
Views: 15228

Re: Ancient mystery cults.

...................................................................... I have been meaning to take a closer look at the letter from Hadrian to Servianus. Its authenticity as a Hadrianic letter is, to my mind, very much to be questioned, at the very least; however, that does not necessarily mean tha...
by andrewcriddle
Wed May 10, 2017 11:42 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion, 2nd Century Bad Boy -- Could It Be True?
Replies: 66
Views: 46701

Re: Marcion, 2nd Century Bad Boy -- Could It Be True?

Furthermore "Irenaeus told us that Justin Martyr wrote a work against Marcion, which is now lost." And Trump said he fired Comey for the way he mistreated Clinton not the Russia investigation. What's your point? IIUC we have both speculated that Justin against Marcion was one of the sourc...
by andrewcriddle
Wed May 10, 2017 11:28 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Gospel of Thomas narrative
Replies: 30
Views: 11115

Re: Gospel of Thomas narrative

Perrin in his controversial work Thomas and Tatian argues that the different saying are connected by link words and link concepts. I'm not sure if this is the sort of thing you are looking for.

Andrew Criddle
by andrewcriddle
Wed May 10, 2017 11:19 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A mythicohistorical (hybrid) approach to Christian origins.
Replies: 176
Views: 105065

Re: A mythicohistorical (hybrid) approach to Christian origi

I'm giving references for Baal and Inana I'll try and clarify my difficulty. It is quite possible that there was a Jewish myth in which Yahweh in primeval times battled with the forces of death and/or entered the realm of death, was initially defeated but finally victorious, in a way paralleled by t...
by andrewcriddle
Tue May 09, 2017 1:34 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A mythicohistorical (hybrid) approach to Christian origins.
Replies: 176
Views: 105065

Re: A mythicohistorical (hybrid) approach to Christian origi

Constructions like "dying and rising gods" are basically junk DNA that keep discussions like these bogged down in obsolete 19th century thinking. In the Ugaritic texts, Ba'al apparently goes down into the underworld, is temporarily overwhelmed by death, but then defeats death and goes bac...
by andrewcriddle
Tue May 09, 2017 11:33 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion, 2nd Century Bad Boy -- Could It Be True?
Replies: 66
Views: 46701

Re: Marcion, 2nd Century Bad Boy -- Could It Be True?

If I remember right, and there's a reasonable chance I'm not, reconstructed Marcion has all the so-called Western Non-Interpolations; that is, it agrees with the great majority against Codex Bezae and the Latin texts like it where the latter are missing certain lines. If you believe those lines are...