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something in the odes in this area if the name James means supplanter ode 4 has a 'temple' attempting to be supplanted then says 'the older shall not be replaced by those lesser' it does mean less, too small, fewness, meanness could be read as referring to an individual James maybe. the ode would s...

In a variation on the antithetical pairs of great and small vis-a-vis oldest and youngest, there is this blended usage in Luke: greatest and youngest. Luke 22:26 ὑμεῖς δὲ οὐχ οὕτως ἀλλ’ ὁ μείζων ἐν ὑμῖν γινέσθω ὡς ὁ νεώτερος καὶ ὁ ἡγούμενος ὡς ὁ διακονῶν" But you [shall] not [be] like them. Ins...

What do you interpret τοῦ μικροῦ to mean? I would be interested to know if there are examples in other Greek texts where it is used to mean ‘younger’. Mark uses νεοτητος in 10:20 for youth and νεον for young in 2:22. (1 Tim 5:1 has νεωτερους for younger.) Re: The meaning of τοῦ μικροῦ I had never c...

The Two Jameses in Mark with Parallels in Galatians In Mark , we encounter a situation that strikingly mirrors Paul's epistle to the Galatians—two Jameses are distinguished by contextual markers, yet mainstream scholars always overlook these obvious clues. In Mark's narrative world, two women named...

Those who fled to Pella were presumably Jewish Christians ; that they somehow flipped to being Gentiles in order to be approved by Hadrian for return to Jerusalem is not likely . Some may have returned, sometime, to Jerusalem, but probably not all. Re: Jewish Christians ... somehow flipped ... not ...

As I have already stated I believe along with Theissen that the one which is “intelligible without speculative additions” in 15:40 is the most likely and therefore the three women are Mary the Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses and Salome. If Mark has created the empty tomb scene then 15...

RE: Wikipedia on First Christians: the "flight to Pella" In what is known as the "flight to Pella", sometime before the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, tradition holds that a Jewish-Christian sect of Nazoreans made their way to Pella and settled in the city which became ...

...this thread is not about the empty tomb and mourning.... (I have already stated Crossan’s view that the women in Mk 15:47 and 16:1ff are Markan redaction.) It is about discussing Mk 15:40-41 and the three women. Hi Michael, I've read the Goodacre article for the first time, thanks to your link. ...

Here's some more information to help explain the reason for the question in the OP (quoting myself from elsewhere): "....I think Papias' mention of Aristion, who reported early Christian traditions to Papias, may be Ariston of Pella. This has been proposed before (e.g., Benjamin W. Bacon, Expo...

Thanks ebion!

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What about 1) NKJV and 2) NKJV Study Bible?