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And? That's one interpretation. Viklund has argued that this is the proper end to the letter. Maybe Clement goes on to discuss something else. Your interpretation and many people's interpretation is that the letter continues. We simply don't know. Based on the evidence available to us, however, Cle...

Surely the Mar Saba is not revealing divine mysteries. Presumably Clement is doing the same thing as he is doing in the QDS. Simply producing the Alexandrian text of Mark. That's not a crime or a breaking of taboos. The issue in to Theodore is exegesis. The shameful exegesis of the Carpocratians. W...

Very interesting. Do you think that Clement is saying that there was a prohibition on explaining mysteries in letters specifically (and that oral communication would be acceptable) or that the letter form was not capable of explaining mysteries as deep as the mysteries Paul says were hidden since C...

If at least FTSOA one accepted Colossians as authentically Pauline, would the arguments against the authenticity of Philemon still hold ?

Andrew Criddle

This passage in the ANF translation of Stromateis V "For I know," says the apostle, "that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ;" Romans 15:29 designating the spiritual gift, and the gnostic communication, which being present he desires to imp...

So what *wouldn't* sound like grasping at straws?? An autograph, like the letter we have from Bar Kochva, would be perfect. If Pilate had published his letters to the emperor, like Pliny the younger did that would be awesome. Even if they had some throwaway reference like "Also, tell Herod to ...

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 ...

Apparently an Anguiped

Andrew Criddle

Could I ask for your thoughts on 1 Peter, or if you know any relevant references? I find that most seem to place it either earlier or later than ca. 65-70 CE, i.e., that most seem to propose either authorship earlier with Peter involved (prior to a death by tradition ca. 64 CE) or authorship a few ...

Consider the following, all of which is disputed, some more than others: Paul wrote several letters in the mid-first century. Peter, with help from others such as the named Silvanus, wrote one letter around 65-70 CE. Peter relied on an interpreter named Mark, who wrote down some stuff about Jesus a...