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I1) The appearance of Jesus to Paul, which led to his conversion. For the plot point above, I still think the first chapters of Galatians (the Marcionite version) is a great fit. I lightly edited it, rearranging a very few orders, because Markus Vinzent's reconstruction is fragmentary. (I also put ...

But Zedekiah asked Jeremiah to pray for him and he met a bad end. So if anybody prayed for by anybody they meet a bad ending? Surely if Simon Magus met a bad end Acts would have told us. Remember all the stuff Peter did. He was possessed by the Devil after Jesus asked the disciples "who am I.&...

that use of the word also gave the name εὐαγγέλιον to the literary genre of works So The Gospel of Mark literally wrote itself into existence. And then went on to rewrite the world. Logos. This is similar to how the first line of Herodotus Histories gave a name to a literary genre: Learn something ...

And that's it. It doesn't go on to say what happens to Simon, I'm a sucker for happy endings, but he *did* ask for Peter to pray for him. The guy who Christ is building his kingdom on. The key holder. The first pope. And Faul's worst enemy :) If even handkerchiefs that Peter touched could cure canc...

FWIW my go-to greek guy (a greek historian I'm facebook friended with) says without reservation that the two words are γυμνοί γυμνώ

Yeah I know, random guy on the internet quoting random guy on the internet, discount accordingly.

A cursory glance though Mark, by a layman, would seem to indicate that Mark used "gospel" much like Paul does.

But when Mark uses it, it can't be a written text!

For me, Hegesippus makes it clear that Marcion was just another name on a list of gnostics who sprang up after James died. Sure, there were a lot of branches of Christianity back then. An amazing number. Technically, Marcionites were not gnostics. Gnostics believe that you need special knowledge (g...

That sounds like Mark Goodacre ;) LMAO!!!! Never met him in person, but he sure comes across as a very convivial conversational partner, and I aspire to follow his example of presenting a very charitable argument for his opponents position (which is frequently better put than the opponent's!) befor...

In Boismard's multiple-source hypothesis, His diagram perfectly illustrates the fundamental theorem of NT studies: any problem in NT studies can be solved by postulating another lost gospel. IMHO, the synoptic problem can be solved by just the gospels we know about: Mk --> Ev --> Lk --> Mt plus the...

I'm not sure if that would strictly qualify as Fatigue, Prompted by this, I wrote a letter to Mark Goodacre, and asked him whether he considered fatigue to be an objective property of two parallel texts. cf. with the example he uses to explain fatigue: continuity errors in movies. E.g. a prop which...