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Raoul Vaneigem, Resistance to Christianity. Heresies up to the Beginning of the 18th Century [1993] Koukeens, Phibionites, Stratiotics, Levitics, Perates, Cainites, Nicolaites — so many mysterious names and local designations of groups anchored with their particularities to a communal faith or the f...

This "Jacob Watts" who supposedly studied at Tübingen and Marburg w/ R. Bultmann (and fellow-student of W. Schmithals in 1948/9), is "he" a just literary fiction, authorial device, of the Editor/Translator of "his" books? See http://doglawreporter.blogspot.com/2018/07/g...

Paul - to a proto-Gnostic community, referencing that his individual soul was perfected and redeemed by the Christ: Paul states in 1 Cor 15:8, "Last of all, as to the abortion*, he [Christ] appeared also to me" (ἔσχατον δὲ πάντων ὡσπερεὶ τῷ ἐκτρώµατι ὤφθη κἀµοί)... Barnes Notes on The Bibl...

A potential source of associating Samaritans and Essenes is taking the former to mean keepers of Torah (even if that is a folk etymology) and the latter as observers (doers) of Torah (which I have argued* is the etymology). * http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/Essenes_&_Others.pdf especially page...

Epiphanius in his Panarion calls the Essenes Samaritans . There is a great deal of evidence discussed here , that Samaritans/Samarians were well-settled in the Fayum of Egypt c. 250 BC. Samareitai might have referred to an ethnic 'Old Jewish' group. To outsiders, the long indigenous Samarians (who w...

1) I have a German text, 1898: I machine-translated it, 85% adequately on first go. That version is highly 'literal' w/ umpteen nested clauses and the verbosity of late 19th C. Germanic academia. It's readable (useful) but terribly inelegant, sloggy, as such. Lots of editing, proofing required. 2) I...

Eric Voegelin on The New Science of Politics ,11 November 1953. Then there is the question of Gnosis. You attribute to me the "readiness" to identify all sorts of ideas as Gnostic, as if that were my oddity. Well, if you attribute to me, as is frequently done, the great discovery of the pr...

I'm curious about various theories regarding this work and its first audience. I've quickly reviewed the somewhat scant scholarship (Pistis Sophia has had relatively little serious attention; Books of Jeu even less!) I suppose its 'New Age' literature of Late Antiquity: that is, it was produced as a...

PhD reference, mentioned previously, Link , p.132. 1 Enoch consists of a collection of writings composed between the fourth century BCE and the turn of the Common Era. In the second and first centuries BCE, at least eleven manuscripts were produced for the separatist Essene community of Qumran and l...

Given the general consensus of a First C. AD date (c.95 AD) for the inception of the Didache, is it reasonable to assume the 'Pater Noster' in its earlier Greek or Hebrew form probably dates a generation or two earlier? Older? I dont buy late dater arguments that everything appears at the last minut...