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Persecution of heretics commenced when Nicene orthodoxy arose during the rule of Constantine. Some historians (e.g Robin Lane Fox) claim that the earliest precedents for torture of the philosophers and magistrates on account of their admitting religious fraud was at the earlier Council of Antioch. (...

The following data has been extracted from Hugo Lundhaug's " Textual Fluidity and Post-Nicene Rewriting in the Nag Hammadi Codices" in NAG HAMMADI À 70 ANS.QU’AVONS NOUS APPRIS? NAG HAMMADI AT 70:WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? (Colloque international, Québec, Université Laval, 29-31 mai 2015 Lundau...

The uncomfortable facts are that (a) the biggest "gnostic" names are pre-150, (b) the anti-heretical writings with specificity are post-150, and (c) there are no other sources with dates. It's not chronological, but here is an attempt at a list of names, with who mentions them: https://bi...

Giuseppe wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:56 am
... the point remains that the Outer Space theory is for the 90% the theory advanced by the past mythicists in the History.

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That's an interesting "Outer Space" collection Giuseppe

Coptic Jesus the Chrest - Nomina Sacra in the Nag Hammadi Library 2.0 Martijn Linssen 2022, Thomas Miscellaneous, Part V https://www.academia.edu/84288595/Jesus_the_Chrest_Nomina_Sacra_in_the_Nag_Hammadi_Library Introduction An unusually concise and even brief publication, this is a single overview...

It looks like the blog of Eric Knibbs, Assistant Professor of History at Williams College in Williamstown, MA., may be back online: http://pseudoisidore.blogspot.com/2013/08/towards-theory-of-pseudo-isidore-part-i.html "I work on the Pseudo-Isidorian Forgeries" From the blog: Now that we'v...

Another related abbreviation to be included could be the Chi Rho That is true. Thank you for these references. Chi Rho ☧ You're welcome. Here's the link and stats for the Chi Rho ☧ in the Packham data https://inscriptions.packhum.org/search?patt=%F0%90%86%A0 897 matches in 650 texts. The "Conc...

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VI.24944 In his commentary, Boman refers to an epitaph inscription (CIL VI:24944) dating to possibly before 37 AD/CE that mentions a man named "Iucundus Chrestianus." http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag76/historyhuntersinternational/CILVI24944CHRESTIANI_z...

Summary: ...[τῶν ἀδελφῶ]ν̣ ἐ̣ν̣ Χ(ρ*στ)ῷ... ...ἐν κ(υρί)ῳ Χ(ρ*στ)ῷ... τοῦτο δὲ ποιοῦντες Χρηστιανοὶ κληθή[σο]μ̣εν̣ ἐν Χ(ρ*στ)ῷ. ...ἡ σωτηρία ἡμῶν Χ(ρ*στ)ω... τοῦτο δὲ ποιο̣ῦντ̣ε̣ς συνχρηστοὶ κληθήσομεν. It does appear that X = Χρήστος however when I ask google translate to translate "συνχρηστο...

That's about it for inscriptions, for now. I attempted to include all the Χρηστ- inscriptions that were "Chrestian/Christian" or "Chrest/Christ" (which required sorting through a remarkable number of inscriptions for the names Chrestos, Chreste, and Chrestion). For the other for...