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Back to these meaningless fucking diagrams. The diagrams depict mainstream chronology for the gnostic material: 2nd, 3rd and 4th century authorship. They demonstrate that the mainstream sees a continuity of gnostic authorship during these centuries. Why do we not see some significant change in the ...

If gnostic literature was a reaction against orthodoxy, we would expect to see stronger parallels. Most gnostic literature make no points at all about any of the NT gospel stories. When you react against something, you have to parallel it in some way. Here are some parallels that it would be good t...

That hypothesis does not seem able to explain MacDonald's idea that sections of the pastorals were a literary reaction to the Paul/Thecla stories circulating orally, especially among the order of widows, as in the gossipy old women that "Paul" writes about. My response would be to contend...

perseusomega9 wrote: Don't forget the magic wands

http://wasjesusamagician.blogspot.com.a ... -wand.html

It's funny you mention MacDonald, because he places the pastorals in opposition to Paul/Thecla stories, whether written or oral, and he leans oral. His thesis also places them in 2nd century Rome as the catholic church was making the new religion acceptable to Roman sensibilities with respect to fa...

It's funny you mention MacDonald, because he places the pastorals in opposition to Paul/Thecla stories, whether written or oral, and he leans oral. His thesis also places them in 2nd century Rome as the catholic church was making the new religion acceptable to Roman sensibilities with respect to fa...

(a)The 4th century interpolation into Josephus, known as the "Testimonium Flavianum", is regarded by many as a critically positioned forgery, with respect to the history of the NT Canonical story. (b) Likewise the "Testimonium Tertullianum", it is suggested, should be regarded a...

andrewcriddle wrote:Greek EThNIKOI only significant textual variant hUPOKRITAI hypocrites

Thanks Andrew.

http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lex ... ongs=G1483

I know there is debate about the Orante and it certainly seems to have predated Christianity but I thought its use so frequently in biblical scenes indicated it had been borrowed and reused by the Christians. http://depts.drew.edu/jhc/AbrahamsenOrante.pdf by V Abrahamsen - ‎2002 They also appear to...

One symbol which I would expect to find in the archaeological record - especially on Christian gravestones - is the nomina sacra symbol for "Jesus Christ". The Greek New Testament might not have been able to have been read by many - due to literacy. But anyone interested in the sacred name...