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MrMacSon

The names you could use for this approach include: Justin Martyr Irenaeus Clement of Alexandria Tertullian Origen Cyprian Eusebius These seven authors can provide, epistemically, the foundation of the investigation of ante-Nicene Christianity. They should be analyzed in conjunction with the documen...

MrMacSon

There is all this information out there (i.e. Baarda's Flying Jesus from the Diatessaron etc) but it just sits there because it doesn't fit into our traditional assumptions. http://www.earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=35117#p35117 I think that the place to start is here http://www.jstor.org/...

MrMacSon

So to summarize this rather speculative investigation, I think Chrestos was a Greek translation of an underlying Aramaic terminology which in turn translated the Hebrew terminology for 'Apostle.' According to this premise by the time the Greek translation was made the concept of the sheliach became...

MrMacSon

The question of Jesus' historicity has existed for centuries. If Jesus never existed, then neither did the twelve, nor Paul, nor Luke and Mark... and so on and so forth.... At what point in Christian history are we no longer dealing with "did this person really exist?", but rather with pr...

MrMacSon

JoeWallack wrote: ... Origen shows no awareness of its existence [ie. existence of the LE of Mark 1]

Interesting. Thanks for this and other interesting points.

MrMacSon

I've always played with the idea that Theodore of Byzantium (= Clement of Alexandria) and Victor (= Irenaeus). When Adv Haer keeps speaking about Jesus and Christ being treated as separate beings because of the Gospel of Mark he is betraying the doctrines of Theodotus. Interesting! Theodotus/Theodo...

MrMacSon

[ Every category of External evidence though, Manuscript, Patristic, Scribal and Authority shows that the direction of change is from 16:8 to LE. In one sense this is true. Early in the transmission history there was a major bifurcation of the textline. Then the omission ending was completely rejec...

MrMacSon

I'm not sure how this fits with DCH's or Peter K's comments on the role of Greek stuff, but I'll put it here, anyway. (the paragraphing is my 'editing'). ... in agreement with those who have returned to the view that Tertullian used a Greek copy of Marcion’s Apostolikon, 14 I have defended the view ...

MrMacSon

All these people love to write, write, write about Marcion. But if they really wanted to do a service for [human]kind they would arrange for someone to analyze portions of Ephrem's Against Marcion ...

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MrMacSon

Stephan Huller wrote a year ago - ... the Tertullian corpus ...is made up of reworked editions of other people's writings. Take Against Hermogenes for example. Harnack, Grant, and countless others say it is really based on Theophilus's text of the same name. So too with respect to Against the Valent...

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