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by lclapshaw
Thu Jul 20, 2023 10:43 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Earliest manuscript that spells out "Jesus Christ"?
Replies: 29
Views: 3416

Re: Earliest manuscript that spells out "Jesus Christ"?

The earliest associated name for IC is, I believe, Iesuos in a copy of the Septuagint conservatively dated to the early third century.
by lclapshaw
Thu Jul 20, 2023 10:35 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Earliest manuscript that spells out "Jesus Christ"?
Replies: 29
Views: 3416

Re: Earliest manuscript that spells out "Jesus Christ"?

As far as I know Codex E is the earliest copy that we have viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8768

If anyone knows of anything earlier I would love to see it.
by lclapshaw
Thu Jul 13, 2023 9:56 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: What about the argument based on synagōgē to date the gospels in the second century?
Replies: 29
Views: 1462

Re: What about the argument based on synagōgē to date the gospels in the second century?

Maybe I'm just missing the point but isn't σuνaγωγή simply Greek for gathering? What other word would people use when writing in Greek to describe a place of gathering? Surely σuνaγωγή wasn't confined simply to Jewish people.
by lclapshaw
Thu Jul 13, 2023 8:20 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Google Translate does Ancient Greek
Replies: 6
Views: 941

Re: Google Translate does Ancient Greek

I tried a few of these, and currently I like ChatGPT for translation the most. Does the program favor classics Greek over "Biblical" Greek in its translation? I don't know, but it seems competent in koine Greek. I haven't tried classical. That's not quite what I meant. Normally when some ...
by lclapshaw
Wed Jul 12, 2023 10:46 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Google Translate does Ancient Greek
Replies: 6
Views: 941

Re: Google Translate does Ancient Greek

Peter Kirby wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 8:43 pm I tried a few of these, and currently I like ChatGPT for translation the most.
Does the program favor classics Greek over "Biblical" Greek in its translation?
by lclapshaw
Thu Jul 06, 2023 10:30 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: My Wildly Atheistic Conspiracy Theory Concerning Base Paul in 1 Corinthians
Replies: 25
Views: 3484

Re: My Wildly Atheistic Conspiracy Theory Concerning Base Paul in 1 Corinthians

Having found what I feel is a "urpaul" and a "base Paul" in 1 Corinthians Pre-Gospel 1 Corinthians.pdf and what appears to be 1 or more writers that seem to postdate the Gospel stories and Acts in that letter Post Gospel and Acts 1 Corinthians.pdf I would like to put forth a sce...
by lclapshaw
Wed Jun 28, 2023 8:15 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The “throwing-down” of the cosmos
Replies: 9
Views: 1219

Re: The “throwing-down” of the cosmos

At any rate, it's my new go to term. 😎
by lclapshaw
Mon Jun 26, 2023 11:29 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Quest for the Unhistorical Jesus
Replies: 32
Views: 4362

Re: The Quest for the Unhistorical Jesus

I guess my approach is pretty well summarized here: http://www.decipheringthegospels.com/examples.html It's a matter of determining the source or basis for the material in the Gospels. With this approach is can be shown that the source for essentially every element of the Gospel of Mark is unhistor...
by lclapshaw
Sun Jun 25, 2023 8:27 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Quest for the Unhistorical Jesus
Replies: 32
Views: 4362

Re: The Quest for the Unhistorical Jesus

Unhistorical Spiderman? While we have plenty of historical examples of people named Peter Parker that are contemporus with the Spiderman related to us by Marvel (and, yea, even DC), have we had any attempts of someone removing obviously unhistorical elements of Spiderman from these seemingly fiction...