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nb. https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/ ... intro.html
= 'Introduction to Ignatius of Antioch,' transcribed from Kirsopp Lake's The Apostolic Fathers (1912), v. I, pp.166-9.

For those interested in these topics, there is this reprint of, "The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious": https://depts.drew.edu/jhc/KillenIgnatius.pdf This is in reply to J. B. Lightfoot ... Cheers Peter. That's interesting. I note a letter from William Cureton in the Appendices which i...

Definitely on the Semitic root ( PLT ) for release . Pilate releases Barabbas to freedom. Pilate releases Jesus to be crucified. * Pilate releases the body of Jesus to Joseph of Arimathea. * conceptually / theologically ' releasing ' Him to be glorified [as a sacrifice] * eta And it not need be a s...

Do you have a feel for if the shorter Syriac leters of Ignatius refer to the Pauline Epistles in a way that is above and beyond what could be a reference to Paul-in-Acts? Have a read: https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Antient_Syriac_Version_of_the_Epistl/3UEYAAAAYAAJ?hl=en Thank-you, but ...

"We can hardly suppose that the Syriac translator...should have made such omissions for the sake of brevity, more especially when these Epistles in themselves are so short." No doubt Cureton was more knowledgeable than I'll ever be, but surely this is an argument from incredulity. There a...

Have a read: https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Antient_Syriac_Version_of_the_Epistl/3UEYAAAAYAAJ?hl=en In the preface, on pp. x-xvi, Cureton discusses the 12 manuscripts he used to give the Syriac versions he does. Then in § IV, p.xvi, he notes, "In viewing the Syriac version of the ...

ebion wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:33 pmDo you have a feel for if the shorter Syriac leters of Ignatius refer to the Pauline Epistles in a way that is above and beyond what could be a reference to Paul-in-Acts?

Have a read: https://www.google.com.au/books/edition ... YAAJ?hl=en

Intertextual scholarship, such as Thomas L Brodies, eg.

The Crucible Bridge
and Adam Winn's follow-up, Mark and the Elisha-Elijah Narrative

The discovery and exegesis of the Nag Hammadi Library

The dicovery and exegesis of the Dead Sea Scrolls (and comparisons & contrast of some of it texts to other Jewish literature and to Christian doctrines (see viewtopic.php?p=168647#p168647 and following))

I get the impression that there was an early tradition of a John - probably [mostly] John, son of Zebedee - telling of a revelation from/by a Saviour/Christ/Jesus and of this eventually being usurped by [perhaps new] narratives about this Saviour-Christ or a Saviour-Jesus* +/- the Christ descending...