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by andrewcriddle
Tue May 16, 2017 11:32 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: From a dying Christ to Jesus Christ
Replies: 68
Views: 151625

Re: From a dying Christ to Jesus Christ

If the Odes are directed against Gnostics and/or Marcionites then a date after 100 CE for the Odes would follow. I should find that passage in Philo where Philo is polemic with contemporary sectarians (not Romans or gentiles) who seem to despise the god of the Jews... https://books.google.it/books?...
by andrewcriddle
Tue May 16, 2017 11:11 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Tertullian's Praescriptione = Irenaeus's προστάγμασι
Replies: 64
Views: 26352

Re: Tertullian's Praescriptione = Irenaeus's προστάγμασι

One of the reasons why no one else has explicitly stated that Tertullian copied Irenaeus's προστάγμασι is that no one takes Cyril seriously. They take the reference as a corrupt reference to Against the Heresies (ignoring the προστάγμασι). The full title of his work was A Refutation and Subversion ...
by andrewcriddle
Tue May 16, 2017 10:40 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Acts and the epistles (both Pauline and Catholic).
Replies: 41
Views: 41035

Re: Acts and the epistles (both Pauline and Catholic).

For background: Carrier writes on page 371: The second peculiar thing about Acts is how thoroughly all the people associated with a historical Jesus (as opposed to a cosmic, 'revealed' Jesus) disappear from the historical record entirely. This a historicist cannot plausibly explain. Not only do Pon...
by andrewcriddle
Tue May 16, 2017 10:17 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: From a dying Christ to Jesus Christ
Replies: 68
Views: 151625

Re: From a dying Christ to Jesus Christ

H.J.W. Drijvers, "The 19th Ode of Solomon: Its interpretation and place in Syrian Christianity," Journal of Theological Studies ns 31.2 (Oct. 1980): 337-355 argues plausibly but not conclusively that the Ode has been influenced by Tatian's Diatessaron. Andrew Criddle I've been trying to i...
by andrewcriddle
Mon May 15, 2017 12:03 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: From a dying Christ to Jesus Christ
Replies: 68
Views: 151625

Re: From a dying Christ to Jesus Christ

I have real problems in dating Ode 19 before the Gospel writers. (It may imply knowledge of the protoevangelium or the sources on which the protoevangelium was based) A cup of milk was offered to me, and I drank it in the sweetness of the Lord's kindness. The Son is the cup, and the Father is He wh...
by andrewcriddle
Mon May 15, 2017 11:22 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Gospel of Thomas narrative
Replies: 30
Views: 11176

Re: Gospel of Thomas narrative

The Lion becomes Man The Gnostic Leontomorphic Creator and the Platonic Tradition by Howard M. Jackson may be of interest. I believe there were some posts about the position(s) of Jackson on Lion symbolism either on the FRDB BC&H forum, or on the present one. Over on FRDB BC&H I commented i...
by andrewcriddle
Sat May 13, 2017 4:10 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Ba'al and Yahweh.
Replies: 12
Views: 16401

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 2:28 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Gospel of Thomas narrative
Replies: 30
Views: 11176

Re: Gospel of Thomas narrative

The Lion becomes Man The Gnostic Leontomorphic Creator and the Platonic Tradition by Howard M. Jackson may be of interest.

Andrew Criddle
by andrewcriddle
Sat May 13, 2017 2:08 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: From a dying Christ to Jesus Christ
Replies: 68
Views: 151625

Re: From a dying Christ to Jesus Christ

I have real problems in dating Ode 19 before the Gospel writers. (It may imply knowledge of the protoevangelium or the sources on which the protoevangelium was based) A cup of milk was offered to me, and I drank it in the sweetness of the Lord's kindness. The Son is the cup, and the Father is He who...
by andrewcriddle
Sat May 13, 2017 2:02 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A mythicohistorical (hybrid) approach to Christian origins.
Replies: 176
Views: 105429

Re: A mythicohistorical (hybrid) approach to Christian origi

One should note however, that some of the most interesting parallels to Christianity among the pagan mysteries are first attested in the post-Christian period. What parallels do you have in mind? What period do you have in mind as 'the post-Christian period'? See for example the passage from Firmic...