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- Sat Nov 25, 2023 11:42 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Historical Kernal To Which Mythical Belefs Attached
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The Historical Kernal To Which Mythical Belefs Attached
Jesus historicists rest their claim on a set of consistent and specific beliefs to which early Christians were particularly attached. For example, the resurrection of Jesus. Consistent obsession with these beliefs indicates some sort of historical cause. I believe that the complexity and fog of hist...
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 7:52 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: "Veil of Arabia" Hypothesis For Christian Origins Missing Links
- Replies: 1
- Views: 553
"Veil of Arabia" Hypothesis For Christian Origins Missing Links
The "Veil of Arabia" is the border between the Roman and Parthian Empires, which has created a dearth of evidence and paucity of context on the interaction between these two cultures. Armenian history, for instance, represents one area where some common history is preserved. There are thre...
- Thu Jun 29, 2023 1:13 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Marcion and the Diatessaron (Victor Codex / Bonifatianus)
- Replies: 1
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Re: Marcion and the Diatessaron (Victor Codex / Bonifatianus)
Tatianus, Epistulae Pauli, Actus Apostolorum, Epistulae Catholicae, Apocalypsis Shelfmark: 100 Bonifatianus 1 (Victor-Codex) There we have it, parable of the patch and the wineskins, from the Diatessaron, diplomatic transcription Isn’t the Victor Codex written using the vulgate, and simply relied o...
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 3:33 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Catholicization Came From Assyria; Marcionism Is Fake
- Replies: 2
- Views: 639
Re: Catholicization Came From Assyria; Marcionism Is Fake
By coincidence, though I don't have more to say, an academic paper landed in my email inbox and today's thoughts resonated with it: Rabbi Eliezer and Jacob “the Min,” two texts which have already been extensively commented. By contrast, the following passage of the Tosefta has rarely been noted in c...
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 12:37 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Catholicization Came From Assyria; Marcionism Is Fake
- Replies: 2
- Views: 639
Re: Catholicization Came From Assyria; Marcionism Is Fake
A fuller history of Christian origins, for completeness. Proto-second temple Judaism, with LXX, includes "Sadducees" and "Boethusians" per Talmud. These are the Hasmoneans and the House of Onias, whose exile in Egypt does not end following the Maccabean revolt. Into the Hasmonean...
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:07 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Catholicization Came From Assyria; Marcionism Is Fake
- Replies: 2
- Views: 639
Catholicization Came From Assyria; Marcionism Is Fake
My explorations surrounding particularly the ignored Assyrian renaissance from 200 BC - 200 AD have come to a conclusion. Over the last 48 hours it's finally all percolated into a coherent picture, so I'll leave this for posterity. The concept is that western Roman Christianity was always quintessen...
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 10:21 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Diatessaron As Marcion's Evangelion; Book of Elchasai As Proto-Revelations
- Replies: 6
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Re: Diatessaron As Marcion's Evangelion; Book of Elchasai As Proto-Revelations
The "catholic" easterners bring their budding Neo-Platonic interpretation to Asia around 165, and then this core not only goes on to combat all the rest of western "Marcionite" and Valentinian Gnosticism, but blows back into the East. Neo-Platonic influences are no earlier than ...
- Sat Jan 07, 2023 2:18 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Diatessaron As Marcion's Evangelion; Book of Elchasai As Proto-Revelations
- Replies: 6
- Views: 802
Re: Diatessaron As Marcion's Evangelion; Book of Elchasai As Proto-Revelations
Summary: Tatian's Diatessaron creates two independent ideas among Eastern Jewish Christians. First, it inaugurates the notion of "Marcionitism" which is simply what the easterners call western Christianity. Second, it creates a notion of catholicization where textuality trumps syncretism o...
- Sat Jan 07, 2023 2:06 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Diatessaron As Marcion's Evangelion; Book of Elchasai As Proto-Revelations
- Replies: 6
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Diatessaron As Marcion's Evangelion; Book of Elchasai As Proto-Revelations
As preface, this notion would take much work to even prove its plausibility, and very little work to disprove. Thus, I won't belabor the point. Let us assume that Tatian's Diatessaron is misidentified by later church fathers as "Marcion's Gospel", the nature of the text completely misinter...
- Sat Jan 07, 2023 1:11 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Basic reason why Mark is NOT marcionite
- Replies: 52
- Views: 3139
Re: Basic reason why Mark is NOT marcionite
MacDonald's explanations are so often "off the mark". I don't think it has anything to do with the Iliad and Odyssey. As usual, one can find much better explanations that relate directly to Jewish works and themes. I agree in this case. The Hidden Imam or Hidden Power is a key motif of pr...