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by andrewcriddle
Sun Feb 11, 2024 4:50 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Josephus "Pharisee," though noting others
Replies: 3
Views: 279

Re: Josephus "Pharisee," though noting others

StephenGoranson wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2024 11:59 am Josephus claimed to be aligned with Pharisees.
Describing others was no worry.

The late JP Meier said that the claim by Josephus to be a Pharisaic sympathizer was simply a lie.

Andrew Criddle
by andrewcriddle
Fri Feb 09, 2024 6:12 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Did Josephus say that Jesus was called Chrēstos?
Replies: 118
Views: 3939

Re: Did Josephus say that Jesus was called Chrēstos?

I once ran across a man while conducting business one day, who was absolutely sure that Josephus was a Christian and had actually testified about Jesus Christ in Antiquities (the subject of James never came up). When I asked where he had seen that stated, and he referred me to the essays that Whist...
by andrewcriddle
Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:30 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: KJV Tampering as a precursor to Sinaiaticus Fraud
Replies: 134
Views: 73457

Re: hootleuton studies

Houghton (2011) on Scribal Habits Nazaroo http://homoioteleuton.blogspot.com/2011/08/houghton-2011-on-scribal-habits.html ‘Houghton also notes the findings of Schmidt and Holmes, regarding the unlikelihood of coincidental but identical readings by independent copyists” Some references that should b...
by andrewcriddle
Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:57 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Using ChatGPT
Replies: 162
Views: 113948

Re: Using ChatGPT

Oh, I'm very clear this is what ChatGPT says in reply to my own specific questions. Me: Could ChatGPT 3.5 estimate the probability (50%? 80%? any percentage) that last passage was written by an Imperial authority of the 2nd Century? ChatGPT Based on the information provided and considering the styl...
by andrewcriddle
Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:52 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
Replies: 448
Views: 12362

Re: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος

IGLSyr 21,4 63 (ca 310? ca 341? something else?), an inscription found at Petra ☩ παῖς ἐνθάδε κεῖμε Διονύσιος Ἰάσονος τοῦ ποτ’ ἱερεύσαντος θεοῦ Λόγῳ, θεῷ ἐόντι Χριστῷ πανβασιλῆι ὁμοουσίῳ τριάδι σεπτῇ κεῖνος ἐνθάδε κεῖται παρ<ὰ> τράπεζαν ἁγιοφόρον. ☩ ἐγὼ δὴ δ’ἔτος εἰκοστὸν ὄγδοον ἡνιοχήσας, ☩ Χριστο...
by andrewcriddle
Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:39 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Forget the Myth of Jesus
Replies: 41
Views: 1900

Re: Forget the Myth of Jesus

Nope. I also thinks he assumes that the early Christians were incapable of manufacturing a text which deliberately imitated the "first century" characteristics he identified. Like God or the Holy Spirit would prevent such men from "making up things." That's what's really behind ...
by andrewcriddle
Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:35 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Forget the Myth of Jesus
Replies: 41
Views: 1900

Re: Forget the Myth of Jesus

How else is it justified? Let's be real here. Andrew knows that the Marcionites EXPLICITLY said Acts is a forgery. So it's not like we have to develop a comprehensive argument that the alleged "first century characteristics" MIGHT be false. Clearly Acts claims to be a "first century&...
by andrewcriddle
Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:15 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Forget the Myth of Jesus
Replies: 41
Views: 1900

Re: Forget the Myth of Jesus

I think Acts helps us to understand how Jews Greeks and Romans interacted in the mid 1st century. The 2nd century was different. It is the right sort of interaction for the period. E.G Roman citizenship is rather rare in the Eastern mediterranean and it is binary one has it in an all or nothing way...
by andrewcriddle
Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:55 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: ...caught in denying the existence of the Son...
Replies: 6
Views: 286

Re: ...caught in denying the existence of the Son...

If I understand your post correctly--I may not--you propose that the Sabellians, as described by Epiphanius circa 370 has somehow something to do with a creation of Bar-Abbas in NT. I am not persuaded. thanks for the translation. The invention of Barabbas against the Johannine Jesus has been made h...
by andrewcriddle
Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:50 am
Forum: Academic Discussion
Topic: Historicity of Acts
Replies: 18
Views: 768

Re: Historicity of Acts

The online resources I have looked at on the history of Roman citizenship do appear to be vague on the periods. Some talk as if the same rules always applied (about full Roman citizens and the lesser level of rights afforded Freedmen and their descendants), but others imply that the situation chang...