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- Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:53 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Personification of Group Dynamics: Mishmarot Problem or Christian?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 350
Personification of Group Dynamics: Mishmarot Problem or Christian?
Hello Everyone -- John 1: 14 - 15 (RSV, Emph. added): [14] And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. [15] (John bore witness to him, and cried, "This was he of whom I said, ` He who comes after me r...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Earlier dating of Revelation
- Replies: 17
- Views: 779
Re: Earlier dating of Revelation
One problem here is what might be termed "Compound Dating": Revelation 8: 1 (RSV): [1] When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. Within the Story of Revelation this Fragment appears. Does it refer to something in "Our" Histories? W...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:15 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The only begotten from the Father
- Replies: 11
- Views: 592
Re: The only begotten from the Father
Britannicus was the only begotten son of Claudius - Nero was the adopted son. By way the beautiful Messalina, of which: Acts 5: 9 (In Part): "Hark, the feet of those that have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out." Which appears to come from: Tacitus, Annals, Bo...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Forget the Myth of Jesus
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6594
Re: Forget the Myth of Jesus
The question was "Why should anyone believe Acts? As I used to say with some frequency, "From the Fact the 'Jesus Stories' were written from 'Source Stories', it does not follow that the 'Source Stories' were about 'Jesus'". If you want to believe that "Jesus" took the Holy...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 7:19 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What is the earliest evidence that Nazareth was called Nazareth?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7170
Re: What is the earliest evidence that Nazareth was called Nazareth?
If there is a plausible alternate site for Nazareth, I'm not aware of it, despite considerable time in the area during digs at Sepphoris. Leibner, in Settlements in Galilee... examines Lists of Cities found in the Monumental Synagogues of Galilee and finds no listing for Sepphoris, implying that th...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 10:00 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: KJV Tampering as a precursor to Sinaiaticus Fraud
- Replies: 142
- Views: 107433
Re: KJV Tampering as a precursor to Sinaiaticus Fraud
https://www.amazon.com/Archimedes-Codex-Revealing-Antiquitys-Scientist/dp/0306817373 If Sinaiticus is not stolen, burned or otherwise destroyed, we might find out something in about a hundred years. Jeffrey Epstein faces a brighter future. If you want to read what could be done, get this book. Serio...
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:08 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Matthean Posteriority: Addressing Orchard's Challenge to Markan Priority
- Replies: 6
- Views: 765
Re: Matthean Posteriority: Addressing Orchard's Challenge to Markan Priority
There's an interesting "tension" (to me) between the Synoptics and John, if I may expand the Arguments a bit. The "Cleansing of the Temple" is found in all 4 Gospels. The event occurs towards the end of the Synoptics (so to speak) but at the beginning of John. Some have suggested...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 3:56 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Best evidence that Jesus was anti-Temple
- Replies: 10
- Views: 15466
Re: Best evidence that Jesus was anti-Temple
If you compute the Dates of the Passover and Feast for 4 BCE you will find that: John 19: 31 (RSV, in part, emph. added): [31] Since it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the sabbath ( for that sabbath was a high day... ) Bilgah is on Duty for t...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 3:43 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Peter in the Clementine Homilies Does Not Accept the Sacredness of the Pentateuch
- Replies: 73
- Views: 82896
Re: Peter in the Clementine Homilies Does Not Accept the Sacredness of the Pentateuch
Acts mentioned Lydda (Lod). Josephus mentioned Lydda. Not much. 1. Alfred North Whitehead, "Nature Alive": "For the peculiarity of a reason is that the intellectual development of its consequences suggests consequences beyond the topics already observed. The extension of observation ...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:44 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Peter in the Clementine Homilies Does Not Accept the Sacredness of the Pentateuch
- Replies: 73
- Views: 82896
Re: Acts was written as history
i think Acts was wtitten as History I agree, although we may disagree as to the nature of that History. I believe Acts is written around the 12th Legion and Mucianus. For example: Acts 9: 33 - 35 (RSV): [33] There he found a man named Aene'as, who had been bedridden for eight years and was paralyze...