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by andrewcriddle
Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:51 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Replies: 113
Views: 1785

Re: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article

I agree that 'Clement' does not expressly claim that the text of the Carpocratian version of Secret Mark was explicitly sexual. However it seems clear that that is how the Carpocratians are represented as interpreting it.

Andrew Criddle
by andrewcriddle
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:56 am
Forum: Academic Discussion
Topic: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
Replies: 41
Views: 596

Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?

Could you translate the full sentence and then explain it? Τὸ δὲ γυμνοὶ γυμνῷ καὶ τἆλλα περὶ ὧν ἔγραψας οὐκ εὑρίσκεται. I would understand it as: 'But the naked men with naked man and the other things about which you wrote are not found.' I take the two words γυμνοὶ γυμνῷ to be what Theodore wrote ...
by andrewcriddle
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:33 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Replies: 113
Views: 1785

Re: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article

I'm not entirely sure why γυμνοί is being taken to imply a heterosexual reference, it is a masculine plural, γυμναί would be the feminine plural. Obviously it might have a heterosexual reference but not necessarily.

Andrew Criddle
by andrewcriddle
Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:25 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Replies: 113
Views: 1785

Re: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article

The letter most resembles a private correspondence of Clement. If it's a forgery it was surely written by someone who consulted the statements about the Carpocratians in Clement's surviving writings. In either case Clement speaks or implies Carpocratians gathered γυμνοὶ γυμνῷ not naked man with nak...
by andrewcriddle
Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:56 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: κολοβοδάκτυλος
Replies: 33
Views: 617

Re: κολοβοδάκτυλος

I made a blog post on this hippolytus-on-marcion-and-mark I'm not sure if it's right but it may be of interest.

Andrew Criddle
by andrewcriddle
Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:15 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Where did Celsus' Jew charge harshness upon Jesus?
Replies: 1
Views: 88

Re: Where did Celsus' Jew charge harshness upon Jesus?

Contra Celsum Celsus, in adopting the character of a Jew, could not discover any objections to be urged against the Gospel which might not be retorted on him as liable to be brought also against the law and the prophets. For he censures Jesus in such words as the following: He makes use of threats,...
by andrewcriddle
Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:08 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Socrates never existed: analogies with Jesus
Replies: 12
Views: 281

Re: Socrates never existed: analogies with Jesus

One may have to distinguish between a minimal historical Socrates who almost certainly existed, and the Socrates important in the history of Philosophy, the figure behind the writings of Plato and Xenophon. This Socrates, Socrates the philosopher, is quite possibly largely fictitious. Andrew Criddl...
by andrewcriddle
Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:40 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Socrates never existed: analogies with Jesus
Replies: 12
Views: 281

Re: Socrates never existed: analogies with Jesus

One may have to distinguish between a minimal historical Socrates who almost certainly existed, and the Socrates important in the history of Philosophy, the figure behind the writings of Plato and Xenophon. This Socrates, Socrates the philosopher, is quite possibly largely fictitious. Andrew Criddl...
by andrewcriddle
Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:34 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Dating Paul's authentic letters
Replies: 4
Views: 163

Re: Dating Paul's authentic letters

There are various threads on this https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8005 https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=155 One general issue is that not only does Paul not mention the destruction of Jerusalem, but his letters seems to presuppose that Jerusalem is an i...
by andrewcriddle
Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:43 am
Forum: Academic Discussion
Topic: ...
Replies: 109
Views: 3915

Re: Why the Hellenistic era for ALL "Old Testament" books should be taken seriously

You seem IIUC to be requiring a lot of things to happen very quickly. After the beginning of the Hellenistic period a new understanding of the origins of Israel arises. Two or more groups develop this understanding in related but independent extended narratives. These extended narratives are later ...