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- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What is implied if Jesus' historicity was not doubted?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 317
Re: Any pre-325 CE writings where Jesus' historicity was doubted?
No Jewish or Persian text has questioned the existence of Esther, who was presented as the wife of the great Emperor Xerxes. Yet there is no debate about Esther's non-historicity. If you can invent an emperor's wife without any historian questioning her existence, then you can easily invent a Galile...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:56 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Gospel priority
- Replies: 99
- Views: 2074
Re: Gospel priority
I assume that Ken is saying that Luke interpreted Mark as an adoptionist text Yes, you're probably right. Sorry, I wrote a reply but it seems to have disappeared into cyberspace. I'm not arguing that Mark intended to imply that Jesus became the Son of God by adoption. I'm arguing that Matthew and L...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Gospel priority
- Replies: 99
- Views: 2074
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:49 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Gospel priority
- Replies: 99
- Views: 2074
Re: Gospel priority
(1) No, the birth story may have been added to material taken from Mark in order to show that Jesus did not become the Son of God at his baptism (cf. Mark 1.11), but rather he was conceived and born the Son of God. Just my thought, but it's very doubtful that Jesus became the Son of God only after ...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:42 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Gospel priority
- Replies: 99
- Views: 2074
Re: Gospel priority
Ken, did you read Eric Eve's latest book "Relating the Gospels"?
I think he did a good job advocating for the Farrer theory.
I think he did a good job advocating for the Farrer theory.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:13 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Source of Mark's Naked Youth Narrative?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 420
Re: The Source of Mark's Naked Youth Narrative?
You're preaching to the converted. For sure, one of the main objectives of Mark was to explain the destruction of the temple due to the iniquities of Israel. But that's not the sole objective of Mark. Yes, but my point is that for any given periscope of the Gospels so many people come up with extra...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Source of Mark's Naked Youth Narrative?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 420
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Source of Mark's Naked Youth Narrative?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 420
Re: The Source of Mark's Naked Youth Narrative?
One might wonder if a gospel writer or two might have reflected upon Amos 2 when contemplating the destruction of the Temple (or after the annihilation of Jerusalem by Hadrian; especially re Amos 2.10c: ie., no longer having "possession of the land of the Amorite") Exactly. When you look ...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:13 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Gospel priority
- Replies: 99
- Views: 2074
Re: Gospel priority
In my view : The pauline epistles are first and are based mainly on the OT and on second temple beliefs and expectations Mark is mainly based on Paul, the OT and on second temple beliefs and expectations Matthew is mainly based on Mark and the OT Im not sure if John used Luke or if Luke used John. B...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:38 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Are there deniers of the historicity of the Teacher of Righteousness?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 156
Re: Are there deniers of the historicity of the Teacher of Righteousness?
Yes, there have been deniers. But my article, "Qumran-Related History: Contemporaries Jannaeus, Absalom, and Judah the Essene," chapter 10, pages 310-325, in Pushing Sacred Boundaries in Early Judaism and the Ancient Mediterranean: Essays in Honor of Jodi Magness. Editors: Dennis Mizzi, M...