Stephan Huller wrote:Do you still maintain this practice is crap?
But more importantly you can't just take out one point from a particular author's examination of a given text without having to deal with all the related observations, most or many of which demonstrate quite clearly that the text is to be dated before the fourth century for the texts you've been 'examining' - nay, raping - in this thread.
The author makes multiple claims and I am happy to deal with them one at a time, and I am not obliged to agree with any or all of them.
One is that the author of the acts of Andrew uses Homer, and I agree with his assessment.
Another claim is that the date of the text is before Eusebius, and I don't agree with this.
The first witness to the existence of the Acts of Andrew is Eusebius.
I am quite within the bounds of reasonable logic to accept the claim about the use of Homer and still reject the claim about chronology.
Now if you want to argue about the chronology of the acts of Andrew then now is your chance.
What evidence do you wish to present that the Acts of Andrew was authored before the 4th century?
No one in the history of the study of the Bible has ever sanctioned anything resembling your idiotic theory.
Yes I understand it is a new idea - namely that the heretics only appeared (in political history) after Nicaea.
But that does not make the idea wrong.
Again, what evidence do you wish to present that the Acts of Andrew was authored before Nicaea?
The text actually mentions Nicaea ....
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Extract from the Acts of Andrew ....
"At the gate of Nicomedia he met a dead man borne on a bier, and his old father supported by slaves, hardly able to walk, and his old mother with hair torn, bewailing.
'How has it happened ?' he asked.
'He was alone in his chamber and seven dogs rushed on him and killed him.'
Andrew sighed and said: 'This is an ambush of the demons I banished from Nicaea. What will you do, father, if I restore your son ?'
'I have nothing more precious than him, I will give him.'
He prayed: 'Let the spirit of this lad return.' The faithful responded, 'Amen'. Andrew bade the lad rise, and he rose, and all cried: 'Great is the God of Andrew.'
The parents offered great gifts which he refused, but took the lad to Macedonia, instructing him."