Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

Where current events are certainly driven by a fantastical/farcical history re-imagined, you need only read what the Dictator himself has said. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/10/putin-compares-himself-to-peter-the-great-in-quest-to-take-back-russian-lands Vladimir Putin has compared hims...

Contra Eduard Norden: https://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C92637%2Cpolish-researcher-solves-mystery-anonymous-god-palmyra.html According to Kubiak-Schneider, the addressees were multiple deities who deserved the eternal hymn of thanksgiving. According to her, the name 'Merciful' refers to i...

"Proposed historical dates" are not certain if they are "proposed." However, where multiple persons and events fall into place as probable dating allows, the 'Argument Against' becomes more and more like "The Moon Landing was faked, Because..." And that's delusional thi...

I like to see historical dates, because I believe things happen within timeframes and THAT FACT can sometimes help sort out contemporary ideological debates. Of course, there may be errors in these specific dates - it's just a start. Novatian (c. 200–258 AD),as a North African come to Rome, writing ...

Actually, Irenaeus doesn't say 'Mark the Magician' is from Egypt; Markos is identified as a) Egyptian and b) a follower of Basilides by St. Jerome. Adolf Hilgenfeld, Die Ketzergeschichte des Urchristenthums... [1884],p.369 2, The Valentinian Marcus. As the second main representative of Valentinianis...

In Lajos Blau, Das altjüdische Zauberwesen [1898] p.42 ... Both even give the date when it was brought from Egypt. We need only recall that Gnostic Markos was also an Egyptian and Magician. Please unpack this, thx. The date [1898] means it cannot be the 'Secret Gospel of Mark' .. I'll translate the ...

The Introduction to his ‘Selections From Philo' or Philo Judaeus Philosophical writings (1946) is signed “Hans Lewy, Jerusalem, 1945”. In fact, Lewy fell deathly ill in Late July and his colleague Hans Jakob Polotsky (who had studied under a different set of teachers) edited/translated? this work fo...

This is not a political post (but of course, it is), rather I am addressing detail of a Current Event: the End of Roe, that (in)famous Supreme Court case which legalized abortion in the USA. My interest here is in the footnotes, given below. As some Forum readers may know from my posts, my focus has...

Sobria ebrietas: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der antiken Mystik . By Hans Lewy. Giessen: Topelmann, 1929. 175 pages. In German , now at the Internet Archive. Shirley Jackson Case's review in The Journal of Religion , Jul 1930, Vol.10, No.3 , pp.412-416: The mysticism of Philo is the principal the...