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Someone with the name Barnabas is probably Jewish. Andrew Criddle Isn't Barnabas Aramaic? And while possibly a Jewish man's name I get the impression that Barnabas is from Syria. Acts says he is from Cyprus. I agree Barnabas could be a pagan Syriac name. But even if we ignore Acts, it is more likel...

andrewcriddle wrote: ↑Sun Oct 31, 2021 1:17 pm Someone with the name Barnabas is probably Jewish.

Andrew Criddle

Isn't Barnabas Aramaic? And while possibly a Jewish man's name I get the impression that Barnabas is from Syria.

andrewcriddle wrote: ↑Sun Oct 31, 2021 1:00 pm

Jax wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:00 am
Interesting. Thank you Andrew.

Just out of curiosity, how would you translate the passage?

Lane

If I was paraphrasing I would say The long established and steadfast church of the Corinthians.

Andrew Criddle

Right on. Thank you sir.

Lane

Personally, I think Cephas and Petros are separate and distinct people. Petros is probably a nickname and was usually given to slingers. You might find The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks an interesting read especially his treatment of the names mentioned in Paul's letters starting at page 55....

Marcion was a ship builder, right? Rome was the center of maritime trade. Marcion might be going to Rome even if he wasn't Christian. I don't know if this is attested to or not. I think that "Mariner" and "Ship Master" is all that is used to describe him and Ostia not Rome would...

The highlighted text is interesting to me. How could the author consider the church in Corinth to be ancient if it was only 20-30 years old? He refers to Paul as an ancient worthy as well. If 1 Clement was written c. 95 CE then the Corinthian church would have been fifty to sixty years old. I don't...

Jax -- You make a good point: Suetonius, 12 Caesars , "Claudius": "By such conduct he won so much love and devotion in a short time, that when it was reported that he had been waylaid and killed on a journey to Ostia , the people were horror stricken and with dreadful execrations con...

Personally I find myself wondering if Marcion was from Asia Minor. This is something that SA brought up a while ago in a thread where he pointed out that Marcion was simply described as a man from Pontus, which could mean that he was from the region of the Pontic sea or that he was from the cult of ...

The highlighted text is interesting to me. How could the author consider the church in Corinth to be ancient if it was only 20-30 years old? He refers to Paul as an ancient worthy as well. If 1 Clement was written c. 95 CE then the Corinthian church would have been fifty to sixty years old. I don't...

........................ Sceptical inquiry is not about pushing evidence to vanishing points to suit our agendas, though the term is sometimes used as if that is what is meant by it. If you see evidence in 1 Clement for a broader impact of Paul's activity within the parameters conventional wisdom a...