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According to SA, Hebrews is written in Attic Greek and not Koine like the rest of the Pauline letters. This alone would seem to make it unlikely to belong to the Pauline collection. Also, Titus and 1 and 2 Timothy do not seem to be part of the Marcionite collection but rather are thought to date pos...

davidmartin wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:44 pmpornea?

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yeshuah means salvation in aramaic not a name a noun You are proposing a false dichotomy. In a previous post, Stephan Goranson provided Tal Ilan's list of the ten most common male names of Jews in Palestine in and around the first century (Joshua/Jesus is #6): Tal Ilan (in Lexicon of Jewish Names i...

It's also not hard to solve the puzzle from first principles if we aren't afraid to dispel the mystery. We know that it appears as a noun in the texts, adjusted in different ways for the nominative, genitive, and accusative cases, by varying the final letter(s). We also know that it appears as an a...

How would "yoinking" be rendered in ancient Greek? Anyone know? Something like Ioivk....

Inquiring minds want to know.

If everyone knows what IC is then why use an abbreviation at all? Rhetorical questions like this one don't really tell us what you're trying to argue. We are left to speculate and wait for the inevitable reply that none of the speculations match the hidden intention behind the rhetorical question. ...

It is a problem to propose a date for Coptic Thomas earlier than the evident existence of Coptic. It is possible to lean too heavily on a misspelling. It is more philosophic than religious to speak of the good. It is the case that nomina sacra are a subset of abbreviations, which are sometimes misu...

Oh, btw, 5 was originally hāʼ. Just fyi.

First of all, I love the term "yoinking" and intend to use it as often as possible from now on. :D Second: I sure hope you like reading for pleasure as, judging from your list, you are going to be doing a lot of it. If I'm still alive 15 or more years from now I will be interested in seein...