Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

I wouldn't call this a KJV Howler, but it's at least a KJV Blooper: Their feet are swift to shed blood: (Romans 3:15 [KJV]) That makes NO sense. From Aramaicists In the greek, the word according to Strongs is: 4228 pous pooce a primary word; a "foot" (figuratively or literally):--foot(-sto...

This came up on another thread on the Author of Acts: What a trainwreck. ... Acts is history at its finest ... Acts is not to be ignored, but rather plumbed. Read Mauck , or look at del Tondo's reviews of Mauck's book on del Tondo's YouTube channel : I was really impressed with the details that they...

I hate to tell you this ebion, you seem like a nice enough guy, but I consider all of XCaninty pure fiction. I used to be able to think like that, and but then in digging into the texts I came across the plans of our enemies to eradicate and enslave us, and the importance they attach specifically t...

What a trainwreck. ... Acts is history at its finest ... You claim that Acts is "history at its finest", and yet point-out, and rightly so, some significant problems with the stories told in Acts such as the problem with Paul having some valid mandate from the high priest to operate in Da...

Is there a good book that gives a critical assessment of the early history of the Roman Church? Primarily of the first several so-called popes? Obviously there was a lot of critical work done against the Church during the Protestant Reformation, but some of it is of dubious quality. Mainly I'm look...

There are a number of rebuttals to the idea of PeshittA Primacy on the web and I want to address some of them to see if they stand up to scutiny. 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 translation...

Jesus said he would never come that way: ... But I figure the author of Revelation had the description of the Ancient of Days in Dan. 7:9 in mind ("His clothing was white as snow,and the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was flaming with fire"). Like father, like son, could ...

Isn’t Acts essentially concerned with this mid-2nd century Rome-vs-Alexandria propaganda war? No, Acts is a carefully constructed legal brief to a pagan Roman prosecutor in a case (Paul's) that risked having Christtianity declared an illicit religion, a capital offense. Read in detail, there's a lo...

Chrysostom in the late 4th century and There is a passage in Epiphanius similar to Chrysostom and of roughly the same date. Chrysostom is always fun to read, but again it's just a homily on 1Cor., that assumes 1Cor. is wriiten by Paul. The good bit is: Or will you that I should first mention how th...

The Didache, which is in our Canon not as scripture, but as a sort of Community Rule, is an interesting document, and one I find very beautiful. It adds a real flavour to the kind of congregation that would result.It's been known since the first century and may be a relic of the Jamesian church. htt...