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I'm interested in the interpretation of Galatians 4:4 from those that believe that Jesus is attested by Paul as a earthly man with an earthly ministry. There are several other threads on "what" Paul could mean by "born of a woman". I'm interested in specifically "why" ...

Ben Smith addressed this issue here (and later in the same thread):

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Best,

Ken

Is it salient that Mark gives an origin story for Simon's nickname of Cephas? As if it were something that had to be clarified, why one person had three names? If it weren't for Mark, would we have any other way of identifying those three names with one person? Mark 3.16 has the names Simon and Pet...

. Peace be with you all! What I personally sorely miss is a middle position that accepts 1 Corinthians and Galatians as authentic and the text without interpolations, but classifies the Gospels, Acts, and other early writings on Cephas/Peter as late literary legends without sufficient historical va...

These are clearly legendary sources but the death of Mark in the Martyrdom of Mark (and hence the succession of Annianus) is linked to Passover/Easter, as is the death of James the Just in Hegesippus according to Eusebius . This agreement may possibly support an ancient linkage between the death of...

(i.e. Paul is not saying they ceased enjoying that reputation among human beings). I have never argued that, for the chronicle. J. Louis Martyn is correct when he writes: lt is more likely that he uses the past tense and the word pote for the simple reason that he is telling a story of past events....

If you mean why the ὁποῖοί ποτε ἦσαν, οὐδέν μοι διαφέρει, 'whatever they were formerly, makes no difference to me'. Paul is saying that whatever status they were reputed to have had among human beings up to that point, they stopped having that status when they interacted with Paul. He and God did n...

I do not think there is anything peculiarly Marcionite about the two ancillis (maidservants or slave women) who are called ministrae (ministers, or deaconesses) whom Pliny had tortured to extract the truth about what the Christians believed or did Letter 10.97: All very good points about women and ...

I.e. it looks very much like a proto-Marcionite setting. because Marcionite and non-Marcionite Christians looked very much alike. I do like the idea of thinking about proto-Marcionites because there isn't necessarily that much original theologically about Marcion. Yup. There is one detail in Pliny'...

Do we have any ancient sources that say Annanias, rather than Mark, was the first bishop of Alexandria? Best, Ken Apostolic Constitutions Of Alexandria, Annianus was the first, ordained by Mark the evangelist; the second Avilius by Luke, who was also an evangelist. Andrew Criddle Thank you. More fu...