Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

Philippians 2:7: ἀλλὰ ἑαυτὸν ἐκένωσεν μορφὴν δούλου λαβών, ἐν ὁμοιώματι ἀνθρώπων γενόμενος• καὶ σχήματι εὑρεθεὶς ὡς ἄνθρωπος. Part 2: ἐκένωσεν = emptied ; voided, nullified I begin with the assumption that Paul’s ‘Epistle to the Philippians’ involves Jews, Judaizers, and Gentile proselytes who knew...

Those Brill titles are prohibitively expensive for wee independent researchers. God bless whoever loads these tomes online lol

Dragoş Andrei Giulea, Pre-Nicene Christology in Paschal Contexts: The Case of the Divine Noetic Anthropos [2014] : Link.

Philippians 2:6: "...who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, (2:7) but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness." Berean Study Bible, Philippians 2:7: “but emptied Himself, taking the form of a s...

I am looking at how historians use the written sources. As am I: and its mid-20th C American material. I am despairing at what the "historians" have missed! The figures a historian refers to as in some way contributing to a historical narrative are more than hearsay, I believe -- but I am...

Certain sources are more credible than others. Formal Documents or archaeological evidence vastly exceed multiple examples of hearsay. The existence of most Personalities of Antiquity is a literary form of hearsay. There are many examples of "(Pseudo-)So & So" but we still assume they ...

I note in particular that the author recognizes two facts: 1) the early Gnostics rejected Judaism in toto as a “evil” religion of a inferior god. 2) the early Gnostics were “bound to Judaism by some recognition of the authority of the Bible”. The more simple explanation behind these two facts is th...

For recent events in the modern period, let us say X is plausibly stated as a 'fact' whereas it is actually an historical claim. Isn't the rule-of-thumb that two or more credible 'outside' or independent confirmations ('facts') would establish the claim as fact? I think the same approach works on my...

Biographical Summary
Dutch Radical School

Zipporah circumcised Moses and he became a member of the tribe of Ephraim. Waaaaatt...??! So I'm translating Daniel Völter’s Jahwe und Mose im Licht aegyptischer Parallelen [1919] and he has several pages on this. This I did not know! It was then she declared Moses "a bridegroom of blood by ci...

My rough draft translation has errors ... apologies ... but still: this I did not know! https://www.jweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Tzipporah-e1522359419534.jpg http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/Serabit/SerabitHathorCapital.jpg p.12 Hathor is the ‘Goddess of Foreigners’ 1), who was also transfer...