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From an Early Christian Forum Why Bar Kochba persecuted Christians? : it seems to be hard history that bar Kochba persecuted Jewish Christians. That is an interpretation of one phrase in the fragments of one of Bar Kokhba's actual letters, bolstered by general statements preserved in Justin Martyr's...

The name Jesus Christ appears nowhere in the Gospels, nor in the Epistles . The very first and oldest, original Greek texts contain only ΙΣ ΧΣ, some form of shorthand - and nowhere is explained what it means. When it is assumed to be an abbreviation, there is more than merely one possibility; and w...

All hearers of the texts would obviously also know without doubt what the names were because they heard it as spoken. There were no codes and no mystery. ... Whatever else we may want to argue, the people reading these texts knew what the nomina sacra were. Nomina Sacra are a Latin and Greek creati...

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Our coherent answer, with some of your list, in the Early Christian Ebionaen Canon . Our answer is a little more rigourous in having criteria for inclusion. It is also a graded canon, not a simple in/out. Follow the thread and see what you think. The other question is regarding the Pauline letters ...

Patterson Brown also makes clear the signs that these 2 Coptic texts were translated from a Semetic language, presumably Aramaic . Of course, I'm not suggesting that all Christian works would make it into the canon - I'm just trying to ascertain which works might have been considered trustworthy en...

He probably can't spell either :-,)

i sure would prefer to speculate on this bit of John when it looks suspect for a start the blind man already is a believer thats why they booted him out it looks like the redactor is just making this a chance to have him 'recognise' and worship Jesus (only when he see's him, resurrection hint) so a...

Our coherent answer, with some of your list, in the Early Christian Ebionaen Canon . Our answer is a little more rigourous in having criteria for inclusion. It is also a graded canon, not a simple in/out. Follow the thread and see what you think. Thank you so much - I had skimmed through the start ...

As the Early Ebionaen Christians were close to their Hebrew roots, we conjecture that they observed Passover on the 14th of Nisan; Quartodecimains.