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- Sun May 05, 2024 5:41 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: might help explain why there are no copies today
- Replies: 2
- Views: 45
Re: might help explain why there are no copies today
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- Sun May 05, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 489
Re: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
4. The epitaph 120 by Gregory of Nazianzus The fourth and last Ancient writing about Macrina is an epitaph by Gregory of Nazianzus. It suggests that Macrina had been hidden and unknown before VSM made her famous. The epitaph reads as follows: “ Me, the dust, I hold the radiant virgin, if you hear a...
- Fri May 03, 2024 9:03 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Niels Lemche, "272 BCE – A Terminus a Quo"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 253
Re: Niels Lemche, "272 BCE – A Terminus a Quo"
Niels P. Lemche (U. Copenhagen) wrote an essay, April, 2024 at https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/272-bce-terminus-quo I was not persuaded. Others? I am persuaded that Lemche and Gmirkin and others have developed sound cases for a Hellenistic era origin for the Hebrew writings. You were asked...
- Wed May 01, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 489
Re: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
The discovery at Nag Hammadi exposed the lies of the Orthodox about the Gnostics, and yet biblical scholars reconstruct Marcion's theology based on the accusations of the Orthodox who were hostile to him. This is something I don't understand at all. How can so many people not notice the techniques ...
- Wed May 01, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 489
Re: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
Asked the author the following question: I have one small question: Do you think it is possible that (saint) Anthony was an invention of "Athanasius"? I put "Athanasius "in inverted commas due to the comment of Erasmus "nothing is easier than to place any name you want on t...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:37 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 489
Re: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
short https://apcz.umk.pl/SPLP/article/download/SPLP.2018.019/24441/61350 A good summary. Leucius Charinus You are welcome. Marcion a is a disciple of Simon in Stromata 7.17. In other sources Marcion is a disciple of Cerdo who was a disciple of Simon. Just black PR. Can you elaborate on what you me...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:19 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 489
Re: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
https://www.academia.edu/86026669/Macrina_the_Younger_as_a_Substitute_for_Eustathius_the_Philosopher_Eustathius_of_Sebastea_Establishing_Peter_at_the_See_of_Sebastea Thanks JarekS. That's a very well researched book. The "editorial hands of Basil and Gregory" have long been identified as ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 12:35 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Implications of Marcion for early Christianity?
- Replies: 115
- Views: 2953
Re: Implications of Marcion for early Christianity?
In fact, I see the interactions on this forum as providing a hint to how the Church Fathers interacted with themselves and the heretical groups, except those interactions occurred over decades rather than weeks. These interactions occurred over centuries for those including citations about Marcion ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Nag Hammadi Codices and their Ancient Readers
- Replies: 1
- Views: 166
Re: Nag Hammadi Codices and their Ancient Readers
Google Books has a table of contents and a few sample pages:
https://books.google.com.au/books/about ... edir_esc=y
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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:47 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Most Manuscripts are not Primary Sources
- Replies: 164
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Manuscripts of the "Fathers" are not Primary Sources (they are Secondary Sources)
Manuscripts of the "Fathers" are Secondary Sources not Primary Sources The writings of the church fathers are evidence of early Christianity but IMHO they certainly do not represent primary sources of evidence. These writings of the church fathers - in the form of physical artefactual man...