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by DCHindley
Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:33 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Morton Smith Movie
Replies: 41
Views: 334

Re: Morton Smith Movie

Anglican priests can marry, and are not required to be celibate.
by DCHindley
Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:17 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Two Powers in Heaven
Replies: 26
Views: 834

Re: Two Powers in Heaven

Hello andrew, Yes, not only are the Ps Dionysian mystics of a later age, but so also the Merkabah books as they stand are probably as late or later, and already showing signs of decadence (so no longer a thriving tradition) at time they were edited into their final form. I'm only stating that folks ...
by DCHindley
Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:29 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Was Paul Marcion (in part, at least)?
Replies: 27
Views: 324

Re: Was Paul Marcion (in part, at least)?

One of the other threads here, about the unique POV of Michael Conley, Peter K provided Wayback links to several essays by him that he used to post on his web site. One of them speaks of Peter, Paul and Ignatius, as inventions by 2nd century church fathers who were intent on undermining the Roman em...
by DCHindley
Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:59 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Two Powers in Heaven
Replies: 26
Views: 834

Re: Two Powers in Heaven

MrMacSDon, You gotta love Andrei Orlov. One issue I see, though, is that Hekhalot literature as written texts are rather late (near the end of the Roman hegonomy over the east), and as the footnotes to the translation of 3rd (Hebrew) Enoch in Charlesworth's volumes make clear, there were actually at...
by DCHindley
Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:02 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?
Replies: 9
Views: 251

Re: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?

Hello again allegoria, I found the reference in Conley's Ignatius article, but due to scanning errors and Conley's unusual citation style I had to reformat it a bit. He references Cornelius, Bishop of Rome who, in a letter to Bishop Fabius of Antiochia, dated to 251 C.E., detailed the size of his co...
by DCHindley
Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:07 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Important milestones in biblical scholarship
Replies: 25
Views: 595

Re: Important milestones in biblical scholarship

I have read a couple Context Group publications, often called the Social Science model for understanding ancient Mediterranean cultures: Bruce J Malina & Richard L. Rohrbaugh (Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels) and Bruce J Malina (The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural A...
by DCHindley
Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:36 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Do any Church Fathers state or imply that Jesus spoke Aramaic during his ministry (ie in gospel)?
Replies: 19
Views: 474

Re: Do any Church Fathers state or imply that Jesus spoke Aramaic during his ministry (ie in gospel)?

I believe that it was Joachim Jeremias , in The Parables of Jesus (Engl transl 1955 by S H Hooke), who seriously pursued the idea that Jesus' parables as presented in the Greek language Gospels were best understood as reflecting an Aramaic language source. Jeremias does not, unfortunately, cite the ...
by DCHindley
Thu Apr 04, 2024 5:36 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?
Replies: 9
Views: 251

Re: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?

I think Peter K. may have a copy, though. I was able to find his old website archived. "St. Ignatius, the Insidious Pragmatism of the Episkopoi of Rome and the Rise of Christianity" https://web.archive.org/web/20050203235802/http://thecosmiccontext.de/christianity/Ignatius1.html "Ign...
by DCHindley
Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:07 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?
Replies: 9
Views: 251

Re: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?

I rooted around for Conley's article. I found it below, although it no longer seems to be posted online. It may once have been online at RadicalKritik (I have shurely spellded it wrong). IIRC, and this was 24 years ago, Conley drew upon his experiences researching a pamphlet for the Dept of the Army...
by DCHindley
Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:21 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?
Replies: 9
Views: 251

Re: What do we know about the revenue / expenditures of early churches?

What were their primary means of revenue (donations from individual rich donors versus average “member” collections)? What percentage of the revenue went where? This I am really interested in: what percent went to expensive incense and oil, what percent to feasts, what percent to aiding the poor, w...