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I'm trying really hard to remember why I once unblocked alt-right fundy JohnTroll.

It is not certain that the Muratonian Canon claims to be a c 200 CE work. The claim that the Shepherd of Hermas was written recently possibly means recently compared to the Old Testament prophets not recently in the sense of within living memory. Andrew c RIDDLE see riddle? Hmmm :popcorn:

I find it interesting that letter 96 has no specific time and place to it and just happens to fall between two other letters that are at opposite ends of Pliny territory.

Melito of Sardis seems like a good source for Domitian's persecution of Christians to me. I find it odd, that Pliny the Younger wrote to Trajan about what to do with XCs as if he had never heard of him, neither he nor Trajan could find any imperial precedent for who they were, how they should be tr...

Plutarch surely is: So fearing that his plans would be revealed, when noon came and he perceived that his guards were sleeping off their wine, he put on his tunic, opened the seam over his right shoulder, and with drawn sword sprang forth, accompanied by his friends, who were likewise arrayed, thir...

I listened to an interview with James Tabor where he thinks the whole book has been interpolated and was originally Jewish, I'll reproduce the intent of what he said from chapter 1 by putting the interpolations in italics (I'm guessing based on his statements and not actually reproducing how he woul...

Did any other Christian presbyters have the care of seventy women living a life of ascetic seclusion, presumably attached to his church? Yes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syneisaktism (WIKI)= Syneisaktism is the practice of "spiritual marriage", which is where a man and a woman who have ...

Leucius Charinus wrote: ↑Sun Apr 17, 2022 4:20 am

Did any other Christian presbyters have the care of seventy women living a life of ascetic seclusion, presumably attached to his church?

Yes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syneisaktism

Ken Olson wrote: ↑Sun Apr 17, 2022 11:52 am ...While the 'conventional wisdom' to which I referred is based on the findings of classicists that ancient authors generally followed one source at a time...

Is this a conclusion derived from scroll use or scroll and codex?

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:25 am How about being:

a. a text-based ...

Like Judaism, like the philosophers the first date-able Xtians self-proclaim themselves as,like all those early heretics coming out of Alexandria with its literary power (including Philo)?