Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

On the question of the use of codices - I thought in the past like many here that there was too little and too late evidence of Christians using codices. However, while writing the introduction to the reconstruction of the precanonical version of Paul's letters, it became more likely that the biling...

Thanks to all of you who are reading what I tried to convey. I am about to translate the work into English and also make a few amendments. As you have seen, this is not easy material, and while efforts have been made in the past to understand the development during the first and the second centuries...

Dear all, I can only confirm what Stuart is saying here. John might be pre-Marcionite, as why would Marcion refer to him, if he was not known at all. Likewise, indeed, I think that Marcion is not at the head of everything, but that he collected oral traditions, as he did with Paul's letters. Unlike ...

By the way, I am about to finish a new book on "the formation of the New Testament in the second century" where John the Baptist is one of the protagonists

Thanks to all of you, not only for your thorough reading of my work, but also for the detailed criticism. Special thanks for the editing of the passage by MrMacSon - I should turn to you for editing my English manuscripts, thanks so much for this one here. On the question of John the Baptist, and wh...