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Don't forget that when you're quoting Irenaeus (as you do above somewhere in this thread) you are quoting from a copy of a Latin translation which must be at least one step removed from the Greek language originals proposed for Irenaeus. The earliest Greek to Latin translation that we know about is...

Some conspiracy theories are legit. We know for a fact that there was a Latin forgery mill now called "pseudo-isidore) operating in central northern France in the mid 9th century. Or are you maintaining with a straight face that the church did not indulge in forgery and pious fraud? That's alm...

The translation used is that of the late Thomas Paterson Brown: metalog.org has been fully restored to its state of May 6th 2012 by Martijn Linssen - there will be anachronisms here and there, which are purposely left untouched, save for some text marked as deleted. The site was created by the late...

Here is a list of the verse differences between the PeshittA and the TR (based on work by Konway87 ). Some of these differences are very significant theologically, and as we go through the list carefully, we get the feeling that changes were added to the TR, rather than missing from the PeshittA. 1)...

Thanks LC - I don't know the history. Until then church dogma rules over scientific facts. It is just kicking the can down the road for the following generations to deal with. (Or sweeping under the carpet until they get some more things to sweep under the carpet to smooth out the lumps.) I'd qualif...

The Apostolic Church of the East (which uses the PeshittA as their scripture) was probably the biggest church in the world for a millenium. Their legend is that the ACoE was founded in Antioch then Seleucia-Ctesiphon after the Early Christians from Jerusalem fled to Pella before the sack by Titus. A...

I was aware; I was being polemical.

I apologize for any offense taken, and deleted the polemics, which I will try to avoid in future.

I acknowledge Matthew and Q and Mark have Aramaisms into them, but is it enough to use that for an Hebrew/Aramaic origin of these texts (in particular for Matthew)? I think we can finally answer that question. Stanford Rives reconstructed the Original Gospel of Matthew and wrote a 3 volume work loo...

Am I missing something here? Do you have multiple personalities? A mouse in your pocket? The "royal" we? Does the moniker "ebion" represent the work of a committee of ebionites? Yes and no; it's the convention in publication so at some point I noticed myself mixing I and we whic...

There are a number of rebuttals to the idea of PeshittA Primacy on the web and we want to address some of them to see if they stand up to scrutiny. PeshittA scholarship has come a long way in the last 30 years, especially with the tools at https://www.dukhrana.com/peshitta/ and the english interline...