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ok, this is the alternative explanation: * Thomas or something like it (I'm generous) is original * Ev which precedes Luke wishes to incorporate the pre-existing parables (which must precede the writing of Ev in any case) * Ev lacked the interpretation of the parable originally, the interpretation ...

Here is another image of the word in dispute, this one from the unreduced (338 MB) image file that Roger Viklund has now sent me.

Best,

Ken

4) The theory I am proposing is that Eusebius, who was looking for a passage in his manuscript of the Antiquities for the passage about James that Origen was talking about, found Antiquities 20.200, and glossed it with the identifier 'the brother of Jesus who was called Christ" which he had fo...

This is our subject (to the right of the omicron). https://earlywritings.com/forum/download/file.php?id=2513 I will leave a discussion of the subject character for another post. Here is the subject character alongside other instances of iota after omicron. oi.jpeg Here are some examples of final si...

In addition: Three nouns that end in -νος ἐκλεγόμενος (first page) χρησάμενος (second page) περιβεβλημένος (third page) Do any of these look like γυμνοὶ on page three? Completely different ligature already recognized by Tselikas. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/agamemnon-pala...

I am posting all three pages of the color photos of The Letter to Theodore here (again with thanks to Roger Viklund and Charles W. Hedrick: First page: Viklund_thumbnail_Theodore_01_1200_dpi.jpeg Second page: Viklund_thumbnail_Theodore_02_1200_dpi.jpeg Third page; Viklund_thumbnail_Theodore_03_1200_...

But Marcion may well not be the first to write a book about Jesus and a book (largely) about Paul. True, but: The author of Luke-Acts may have preceded him. That's literally the first time I heard anybody, anywhere, posit that Luke-Acts may have been written before the letters of Paul. I would be v...

It is unclear whether Marcion's Evangelion came before Luke, or vice versa. But there's no question that Marcion's New Testament came before Athenasius's. Marcion was the first we know about who had the brilliant idea of combining stories of Jesus with letters of Paul, and offering it up as being o...

Have you read Mark Goodacre's 'Fatigue in the Synoptics" or his introductory book: The Synoptic Problem: A Way Through the Maze, which has a section on the argument from fatigue? It doesn't sound like you have grasped the argument or why it would be convincing to anyone. You're just saying tha...

This suggests that in GJohn's time (c. 150) it was recognized that GMark was the original Gospel narrative. KK pointed out that Christian Bible scholarship is gradually accepting that GMark is mostly critical of Peter and The Disciples. They are still resisting the significance of 16:8 as the endin...