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(I mean the impossibility by a non-Christian Jew of calling Jesus "the so-called Christ" ) The TF does not say "the so-called Christ," so the effort has failed. The TF says: "he was the Christ". A negative reading would allow for that mean implicitly: "he was the ...

The assumption of the historicity of Paul and genuineness of the letters has led to unrealistic theories to account for the Pauline collection. The earliest among these theories rely on romantic notions of the high esteem for Paul and his letters among early communities. Another and later theory po...

Seems arbitrary. Is the TF easier to defend as being written by Josephus in your mind? judge by yourself: it seems that Schmidt is going to reconstruct de novo the TF by citing only Pagan quotes. If the first apparent obstacle (I mean the impossibility by a non-Christian Jew of calling Jesus "...

The assumption of the historicity of Paul and genuineness of the letters has led to unrealistic theories to account for the Pauline collection. The earliest among these theories rely on romantic notions of the high esteem for Paul and his letters among early communities. Another and later theory po...

Peter Kirby wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:03 am You may be the first person to defend the whole TF while dismissing Ant 20.200.

more than a dismissal, it is the recognition of an underlying basic undecidability (as to 20.200) for the reason above exposed.

Hence I am justified to focus only on the longer TF.

Why should our horizons be so limited when it comes to Paul, that he couldn't have had one eye on his recipients and another on his legacy, one that he personally cultivated in an epistolary style by keeping (as is indeed custom) a copy of his letters? Well, if Paul believed what he preached (an im...

Trypho was a non-Christian Jew and is reported to have said: Trypho: These and such like Scriptures, sir, compel us to wait for Him who, as Son of man, receives from the Ancient of days the everlasting kingdom. But this so-called Christ of yours was dishonourable and inglorious, so much so that the...

= a genuine Paul can't be saved We write for two audiences all the time today - the person we're ostensibly replying to and the "lurker," the broader public that can encounter our writing later and digest its more important principles. Why should our horizons be so limited when it comes t...

The real parallel lies in the fact that the Pauline letters are not really intended for Pauline communities from the first century. Just as the Senecan letters are not really intended for Lucilius. Both the letters show the same rethorical expedients in such sense (i.e. not addressing really the of...

Another article by Livesey : Sounding Out the Meaning of Romans 4:9-12 Program Unit: Paul and Pauline Literature Nina E. Livesey, University of Oklahoma The presence of the second dative article (tois) in Rom 4:12 has confounded exegetes for over a century. Despite the fact that the article is prese...