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Sorry. The author of this sentence means: "The word naked-men (γυμνοὶ is plural ) you wrote is wrong. Instead you should write -of the naked man- (γυμνῷ singular dative). And the other things you did write cannot be found (this could also be: the others things you did write do not exist anywhe...

From what I see in the photo of the text above, Tselikas got it right and Morton Smith wrong. There is no "naked man to naked man" in the text. The authors of this text corrects a spelling mistake made by the person to whom he writes and states that "naked men" is wrong and &quo...

Greek palaeographer Agamemnon Tselikas produced a transcription of the Greek text of the Letter of Clement to Theodore that notably differed from that of R. Morton Smith and others who had read γυμνὸς γυμνῷ, 'naked man [sg.] with naked man' in line 67 (line 13 of page 3 in AKMA's transcription) of t...

The classic argument for Q is that Matthew and Luke independently used Mark (but not each other). It is difficult to speak confidently about 'Q' when the double tradition material appears in *Ev and Mt already, for Luke to use there. Of course, the two source hypothesis (with Q) does deserve consid...

This doesn't directly answer you, Ken, but it shows some of my progress along the way to answering. Thank's Peter. I am always interested to read good research on the topic of the possible Christian references in the works of Josephus (a category which includes the John the Baptist passage for most...

With regard, then, to the pending question, of Luke's Gospel (so far as its being the common property of ourselves and Marcion enables it to be decisive of the truth,) that portion of it which we alone receive is so much older than Marcion, that Marcion, himself once believed it, when in the first ...

@Ken that is indeed a compelling presentation of sayings, but it is clearly selective. Much of the Sermon on the Plain and the Lord's Prayer don't even appear in the set. I'm not saying that they aren't onto something, but it's a selective presentation of Q sayings. This is getting surreal. You pre...

We are told that Marcion referred to his Good God as "Father" and the "Highest" God. We are told that Marcion said Jesus was sent to deliver the message of the Good God, who was called loving and merciful and that we should love all. From Tertullian: Again, he [Marcion's God] pl...

Part of what BeDuhn says is that *Ev contains passages that are "unMarcionite", so presumably *Ev, at least as BeDuhn has reconstructed it, does include "unMarcionite" passages. Are you quoting 'unMarcionite' from BeDuhn? Where does he say this? Obviously this wasn't a rigorous ...

I think I'm done with answering Giussepe here. The other members of the forum may judge for themselves whether Giuseppe or I have presented a better case. If others have questions for me, I'll try to answer those.