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- Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:42 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: minor spellings aside, any proposed cult of "Jesus the Good" evidence?
- Replies: 143
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Re: minor spellings aside, any proposed cult of "Jesus the Good" evidence?
Okay I read LC's latest reply again. This is in the OP: A proposal, based largely on false dating of Coptic Thomas impossibly early--that is, before Coptic is ever attested--leave the question whether there is evidence at all of two separate and uni-directional-sequenced and both "misunderstoo...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: minor spellings aside, any proposed cult of "Jesus the Good" evidence?
- Replies: 143
- Views: 5223
Re: minor spellings aside, any proposed cult of "Jesus the Good" evidence?
The spellings offered are minor. A proposal, based largely on false dating of Coptic Thomas impossibly early--that is, before Coptic is ever attested-- Why do you insist on misrepresenting novel proposals in the field? The basis of the proposed cult of "Jesus the Good" is firmly and secur...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 9:59 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Everybody knew what the nomina sacra were
- Replies: 98
- Views: 9551
Re: Everybody knew what the nomina sacra were
Early XCian literature is simply fiction. That's all. Of course it's fiction. Mills and Boon make a fortune publishing fiction. But the early XCian literature was originally produced in some scriptorium in antiquity by some literary team. I'd like to know the who and the when. And I'd like to know ...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 9:46 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Everybody knew what the nomina sacra were
- Replies: 98
- Views: 9551
Re: Everybody knew what the nomina sacra were
I don't know of any papyri fragments (or inscriptions) for which the date of the upper bound remains within the 2nd century. So if we considered an early 3rd century origin for the nomina sacra which Christian identities at that time were in a position of authority (likely a centralised authority)?...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 9:24 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: minor spellings aside, any proposed cult of "Jesus the Good" evidence?
- Replies: 143
- Views: 5223
Re: minor spellings aside, any proposed cult of "Jesus the Good" evidence?
Do whatever you want show me evidence if any for a ""Jesus the Good" --prior-- religion. Is there evidence if we drop the word "prior" here ... No primary evidence has been adduced for anything "Christian" prior to the 3rd century and even then it is surprisingly ...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Using ChatGPT
- Replies: 162
- Views: 116179
Re: Using ChatGPT
Try a resurrection in the bible belt
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Everybody knew what the nomina sacra were
- Replies: 98
- Views: 9551
Re: Everybody knew what the nomina sacra were
So abbreviation became second nature. In our courts there developed shorthand. In our streets there is slant which in essence codifies messaging (a single word conveys a paragraph of explanation). Nomina sacra are like this. A codified method of abbreviation. Standardisation of these abbreviations ...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Everybody knew what the nomina sacra were
- Replies: 98
- Views: 9551
Re: Everybody knew what the nomina sacra were
I think we can't imagine a world where handwriting was the only way to communicate information over distance and time. Depends on your age. Travelling the world in the 70's involved sending and receiving handwritten letters through the "C/- post restaunt" in major cities. So abbreviation ...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Everybody knew what the nomina sacra were
- Replies: 98
- Views: 9551
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:57 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Everybody knew what the nomina sacra were
- Replies: 98
- Views: 9551
Re: Everybody knew what the nomina sacra were
In any case, people sometimes used abbreviations. The most common situation truly is that everyone knows what the word behind the abbreviation is, and this goes double when people's exposure to the written word is by hearing it read aloud. For example, Arabic numerals are a form of abbreviation. In...