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- 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?...
- Tue May 16, 2017 11:11 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Tertullian's Praescriptione = Irenaeus's προστάγμασι
- Replies: 64
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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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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, ...
- 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
Andrew Criddle
- 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...
- 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...