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Does anyone know the reasons Goulder's lectionary theory of the Gospels was not widely accepted? What were the arguments against? In terms of our (limited) knowledge of the history of the use of the Gospels in worship it seems unlikely that the sort of lectionary suggested by Goulder could go back ...

I haven't read Aelian's Rustic Letters but from the description in Rosenmeyer they don't seem remotely similar to Paul's letters. They seem to be exercises in style rather than in content. Andrew Criddle Why do you keep adding post hoc qualifiers whenever I cite examples of things you insist don't ...

Codex Sinaiticus Mark 14:25 αμην λεγω ϋμιν οτι ου μη πι ω εκ του γενημα τοϲ τηϲ αμπελου · εωϲ τηϲ ημεραϲ ε κεινηϲ οταν αυτο πινω καινον εν τη βαϲιλεια του θυ Wesley's notes on the Bible http://www.ccel.org/browse/bookInfo?id=wesley/notes That is, I shall drink no more before I die: the next wine I ...

OK. When you wrote: People in the ancient world did not usually write a series of fictitious letters in the name of a fictitious person. I thought you meant "a person known to fictitious to us," not "known to be fictitious to us, but not the letter writer." Aelian's Rustic Lette...

The Epistle of Enoch and the Epistle of Jeremiah are two examples, known to Christians, of theological literature by non-existent people pretending to be letters. And of course Revelation's seven letters to "church angels" are purely literary. People in the ancient world did not usually w...

My question relates to Mark 14:24-25, which deals with this same subject of sacrifice, blood, and cosmic versus literal interpretation. http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx?book=34&chapter=14&lid=en&side=r&verse=24&zoomSlider=0 a. Jesus first drinks from the cup, (v...

Akkadian is a member of the same language family as Syriac and Aramaic. If sibburratu is a cognate word (something other posts and links have questioned), then it is the equivalent of finding a word in Gothic in German and middle English. Even if the word is not found in our surviving Anglo-Saxon t...

.......................... Beck then states: Bull sacrifice was central to the great feast of Mithra, the Mithragan/Mithrakana, celebrated by Zoroastrians to this day as the Mihragan (see Boyce 1975b), and there are interesting resonances of the tauroctony in its rituals (e.g. the offering of a por...

I'm not endorsing this line of reasoning, but like Allegro it is possible to go way way out on a limb using Akkadian etymology. DCH PS: Please excuse any errors in Greek accents or possible misreading of Hebrew letters. ABBYY FineReader 11 does a terrible job on Greek accents, has trouble distingui...

There is no evidence of a gospel written originally in Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, or any other Semitic language. The Jesus story is Greek fiction. Jesus is a retelling, in modern times, the story of Herakles. Those who get all flustered about Jewish this, and Jewish that, simply do not comprehend, th...