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Gauls not Goths !

I like Nicholas Horsfall's articles a lot. But here I suspect that Neil might point out that he was primarily a literary critic, not an historian, and that the sources he cites here are far from contemporary with the events...

As a diversion, and as it touches on two staples of this forum, nomina sacra and Secret Mark, I offer an outline of a paper I came across. It is a cautionary tale of what can happen when a scholar strays beyond their area of core competence. Ilaria Ramelli is a decent and prolific patristics scholar...

In earlier posts from years ago, I noted a tendency in the Pauline writings to include a form of the definite article ho ("the") with the Greek word kurios ("lord") when referring to Jesus/Jesus Christ/Christ Jesus. Alternatively, kurios seems to be primarily anarthrous (without...

Also, do you have a citation for where Justin says that IC = Jesus Man? Sorry, having trouble finding it. Maybe try PMing SA. The text is 1 Apol.33.7, but as emended by Miroslav Marcovich Use Marcovich as a searchword in SA's posts to get links to threads making use of it. Ken Olson, 19 Jan 2022, b...

I think by its very nature Clement's Stromata was pseudo-Clementine or at least post-Clementine. Stephan, as you well know there is a series of programmatic summaries scattered throughout the Stromateis. For the entertainment of others, here's the 'introduction' from the end of book 7 : "Havin...

In general I have a problem here with many supporters and opponents of the authenticity of the Mar Saba letter. They are primarily concerned with finding a context for the extracts from the alleged Secret Gospel and insufficiently concerned with the allegedly Clementine material and its possible co...

Andrew, some first thoughts on your first thoughts. (E.G. I didn't previously know Morton Smith was brought up Swedenborgian and I couldn't help imagining parallels between the sexual mysticism and esoteric symbolism of Swedenborgianism and that of Secret Mark.) To be fair, it was Stephan Huller who...

I don’t see a meaningful alternative to these 2 possibilities. Either way, the conjecture championed by BeDuhn makes no difference, and is not useful to the study of our two extant Gospels. There is no escaping the essential question, so profoundly and passionately pursued by Klinghardt, whether Lu...

The argument of the OP still seems to me to be perfectly coherent. The problem with it is that plausibility of itself has no weight. What would lend it credibilty would be definite evidence that an early patristic writer read Acts 26.14 in the way proposed. For this we need somone who knew and quote...

Jerome, Letter 50, 393 AD (NPNF tr.) Jerome has been informed that an uneducated monk has been traducing one of his works in hostile preaching. "Here we have a man who has reached perfection without a teacher, so as to be a vehicle of the spirit and a self-taught genius" / Inventus est hom...