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Well, I have spent a couple of weeks reading the book and I am a little uneasy about what BeDuhn is concluding. He seems to be using circular reasoning. He gives up on reconstructing exactly how Marcion's Evangelion (Gospel) and Apostolikon (10 letters of Paul the Apostle) were worded, although he s...

Greek Magical Papyrus I.229-330: And when [the God Apollo] comes [in response to your invocation], ask him about what you wish, about the art of prophecy, about divination with epic verses, about the sending of dreams, about obtaining revelations in dreams, about interpretations of dreams, about cau...

I don't know if by 'edited later' Markus Bockmuehl means 'ten years later' or what I suggest but it is worth citing his work: "Justin's Dialogue with Trypho is set in the 130s, although it may have been edited later." [Simon Peter in Scripture and Memory: The New Testament] I seem to reme...

Yes, I have. It was pretty interesting, actually. Basically, it looks at what the average Jew or gentile might have thought about Jesus. The model that they all seem to fit him too is that of a Magus (a Median priest who knows how to conjure up the demons who make the world work and get them to do w...

Oh you evil men (and women, if any)! You seek stories, but you should be looking at emplotment. Jesus' story is a tragedy of sorts, that is, the hero was thwarted in his aim to be the Messianic king by his tragic flaw of being divine. Then again, it is also a comedy, in which the hero's aims are thw...

PGM IV. 2039-2066 Then go quickly to where [someone] lies buried ... spread the [magically prepared] hide under him at about sunset. Return [home], and he will actually be present and will stand beside you on that night. And he describes to you how he died, but first he tells you if he has the powe...

Wow, good to know about. I usually just use the TLG, but it's great to learn about this, thanks. It is a pretty big deal, yes. The TLG is excellent for source searches, but few outside of academia have access. The Suda is also very interesting, often hinting at things in long lost sources that we w...

Yes it must be Odysseus. Memory failing. Thanks. It was Ulysses. And the colors of the sea blind your eyes with trembling mermaids And you touch the distant beaches with tales of brave Ulysses How his naked ears were tortured by the sirens sweetly singing Cream - Tales Of Brave Ulysses Lyrics | Met...

I haven't seen this reading in Galatians 1:9. Do you have a reference? There is an asterisk by the reading προειρηκα at http://nttranscripts.uni-muenster.de/AnaServer?NTtranscripts+0+start.anv , which signifies the original reading, but a note says that it was corrected to προειρηκαμεν, which is th...

Desposyni (δεσπόσυνοι) is a plural diminutive form of "despotēs" (δεσπότης) = "little despots". "Despotēs" is a technical term roughly equivalent to "kurios" (κύριος) = "lord/master", but refers to a lord/master who exercises absolute rule over a dom...