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RandyHelzerman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 4:32 pm

lclapshaw wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 11:41 am Would love to get your take on it though, Randy.

*chuckle* as a wild atheist, I loved it!!!

it's a fun little bit of speculation to play around with.

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 11:38 am He's a really smart guy but he's really particular. Maybe he shared it with me because we're friends. Would you like me to email you a copy?

Me? Sure. Thank you.

Please excuse the title of the above thread, it was created as a joke at the expense of one of our members. Would love to get your take on it though, Randy.

Lane

Trobisch has argued that the nomina sacra are an effort to present a uniform "user interface" for the Septuagint--with its euphemisms for the name of god--with the new testament. But the Septuagint also has euphemisms for 'rabbit' too, so it's hard to see how far you can push it. The earl...

StephenGoranson wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 8:33 am What is the source publication (?) for the excerpt in the first post?
The "academia.edu" link in the second post does not work for me.

I get a 404 page not found as well.

RandyHelzerman wrote: ↑Sat Oct 07, 2023 11:26 am

lclapshaw wrote: ↑Sat Oct 07, 2023 12:42 am Hope you stick around. I find your posts enjoyable.

Thanks, that's a real nice thing to say. Since--at my age--the urge to prattle on, gasbag, and stick your nose in everywhere is so strong, your hope has every likelihood of being fulfilled

RandyHelzerman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 6:59 pm Garbled—-still getting used to this wonderful forum software…

Hope you stick around. I find your posts enjoyable.

Somewhere I sense that Marcion's text looked like a cross between Mark and Luke and that the Gospel of Mark more faithfully retains some elements of Marcion's text than Luke does. If that is indeed the case, then I may agree that Marcion's Gospel came first, but it would mean that Mark is a redacti...

I think that some of the works of the NT are fiction. Most specifically, the Gospel of Mark is an entirely invented allegorical fiction. I think there was an underlying Acts of the Apostle, which was about Paul's ministry. This may have been "based on a true story". There is an original l...

I think that some of the works of the NT are fiction. Most specifically, the Gospel of Mark is an entirely invented allegorical fiction. I think there was an underlying Acts of the Apostle, which was about Paul's ministry. This may have been "based on a true story". There is an original l...