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Re: Why haven't Goodacre, Gathercole, and I accepted Martijn's claims?

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"The disciples were originally called Chrestians (not Christians) at Antioch"

IDK how to explain the distribution of this data. Any ideas? Anyone?

1.00) Manuscript Evidence: "Chrestian" exclusively dominates earliest evidence from 3rd/4th centuries

1.01) SB XII 10772 ................. "Chrestian" [3rd/4th century?]
1.02) P.Laur. II 42 ................ "Chrestian" [3rd/4th century?]
1.03) P.Oxy.XLIII 3149 ............. "Chrestian" [5th century?]
1.04) SB XVI 12497 ................. "Chrestian" [3rd/4th century?]
1.05) P.Oxy XLII 3035 .............. "Chresian" [28 February 256 CE]
1.06) P.Oxy.XLIII 3119 ............. "Chrestian" [3rd/4th century?]
1.07) PGM IV. 3007-86 .............. "The Good" ("Chrestos") [4th century]
1.08) Manichaean Mss: Kellis ....... "The Good" ("Chrestos") [4th century?]
1.09) Cartonage NHC7 ............... "The Good" ("Chrestos") [4th century]
1.10) [#01] Codex Sinaiticus........ "Chrestian" [4th century?] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus
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1.20) NHL (27 x "Chrestos")
SEE Martijn Linssen's CLAIMS:
https://www.academia.edu/62646507

1.21) NHC 1.4 Treatise/Resurrect.... ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲟⲥ (2)
1.22) NHC 1.5 Tripartite Tractate... ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲟⲥ (1)
1.23) NHC 2.1 Apocryphon of John ... ⲙⲛⲧ-ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲟⲥ (3)
1.24) NHC 2.3 Gospel of Philip ..... ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥ (4) -- [See 4.00 below]
1.25) NHC 3.4 Sophia Jesus Christ... ⲙⲛⲧ-ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲟⲥ (1)
1.26) NHC 8.1 Zostrianos ........... ⲙⲛⲧ-ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲟⲥ (1)
1.27) NHC 9.1 Melchizedek .......... ⲙⲛⲧ-ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲟⲥ (1)
1.28) NHC 9.2 Thought of Norea...... ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥ (1)
1.29) NHC 11.1 Interpr/Knowledge.... ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲟⲥ (2)
1.30) NHC 11.2 Valentinian Expo .... ⲙⲛⲧ-ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲟⲥ (2)
1.31) NHC 11.2 Valentinian Expo .... ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲟⲥ (5)
1.32) NHC 11.1 Interpr/Knowledge.... ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲟⲥ (2)
1.33) NHC 11.1 Interpr/Knowledge.... ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲟⲥ (2)

1.91) Miniscule 1243 ............... "Chrestian" [11th century]


2.00) Manuscript Evidence: "not known"
2.01) Chester Beatty 45 ............ lacunae, nomina sacra form? [3rd century]


3.00) Manuscript Evidence: "Chreistian" (Transitional spelling? epsilon-iota diphthong)

3.01) [#03] Codex Vaticanus ....... "Chreistians" [4th century] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Vaticanus
3.02) [#05] Codex Bezae ........... "Chreistians" [6th century] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Bezae


4.00) Manuscript Evidence: Uncials/Majuscules - "Christian" (later evidence from 5th/6th centuries????)

4.00) NHC 2.3 Gospel of Philip ..... ⲭⲣⲓⲥⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥ (2) - [See 1.24 above]

4.01) [#02] Codex Alexandrinus .... "Christian" [5th century?] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alexandrinus
4.02) [#08] Codex Laudianus ....... "Christian" [6th century?] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Laudianus
4.03) [#14] Codex Mutinensis ...... "Christian" [7th century] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Mutinensis
4.04) [#20] Codex Angelicus ....... "Christian" [9th century] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Angelicus
4.05) [#25] Codex Porphyrianus .... "Christian" [9th century] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Porphyrianus
4.06) [#44] Codex Athous Lavrensis. "Christian" [9th century] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Athous_Lavrensis
4.07) [#049] Codex at Mt. Athos ... "Christian" [9th century] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncial_049
4.08) [#056] Codex at Paris ....... "Christian" [10th century] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncial_056


Manuscript Evidence: Miniscules:

4.09) 1 (12th),
4.10) 88 (12th),
4.11) 104 (dated 1087 CE),
4.12) 226 (12th),
4.13) 323 (12th),
4.14) 330 (12th),
4.15) 440 (14th),
4.16) 547 (11th),
4.17) 614 (13th),
4.18) 618 (12th),
4.19) 927 (dated 1133 CE),
4.20) 945 (11th),
4.21) 1175 (14th),
4.22) 1241 (12th),
4.23) 1245 (12th),
4.24) 1270 (11th),
4.25) 1505 (12th),
4.26) 1611 (10th),
4.27) 1646 (12th),
4.28) 1739 (10th),
4.29) 1828 (14th) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule_182
4.30) 1837,
4.31) 1854,
4.32) 1891,
4.33) 2147,
4.34) 2344,
4.35) 2412,
4.36) 2492,
4.37) 2495.
etc

Main Source: New Testament Greek Manuscripts: Acts - (1996)
by Reuben Swanson (Editor)

The sources of "Chrestian" [χρηστιανος] and "Christian" [χριστιανος] in Antiquity
http://www.mountainman.com.au/essenes/c ... stians.htm

QUESTIONS

1) What do the professional and amateur scholars have to say about the explicit use of "Chrestian" and/or "Chrestos" in the earliest manuscript sources. Is this significant or insignificant? Specifically address the statistical distribution by chronology.

2) Does itacism explain the statistical distribution where the name "Chrestian" is replaced by the name "Christian" and the name "Chrestos" is replaced with the name Jesus Christ of Nazareth? In the written form. IDK

2) How is the shift to be explained if not itacism?

3) When did the rule change from "Chrestian" to "Christian", from "Chrestos" to "Christos" in the written manuscripts" What are the bounds - the earliest and latest dates for the transition from Chrestos to Christos? What does the gPhilip have to say?

4) Who were the early Chrestians - when and where did they live?

5) Who were the later Christians - when and where did they live?

6) Does anyone have any idea how to explain some of this data?
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Re: Why haven't Goodacre, Gathercole, and I accepted Martijn's claims?

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Re: Christos and Chrestos

I googled and found this discussion of Christos and Chrestos among textual critics:
http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blog ... estos.html

There were two comments I found notable:

Phil Snider wrote:
3/18/2007 10:08 pm
Just a quick comment.

As I recall, some manuscripts of Tacitus, Annals 15,44 also record Chrestus as a reading, but, generally, Christos is read in.

Tertullian deals this point rather summarily in his Apologeticus 3,5 in which he attributes the error to a mispronunciation on the part of Latin speakers.

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P.J. Williams wrote:
3/23/2007 3:44 pm
Alas, no publication due. I was merely toying with whether the spelling χρηστος might have been an approved Christian spelling of 'Christ' at the earliest period and even one used in the autographa of NT texts. Though the idea would raise other problems (since such a spelling would be irrecoverable—and I wouldn't like that) it would allow Suetonius to have been right in talking of Chrestus while meaning 'Christ'.
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Re: Why haven't Goodacre, Gathercole, and I accepted Martijn's claims?

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gryan wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 6:11 am Re: Christos and Chrestos

I googled and found this discussion of Christos and Chrestos among textual critics:
http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blog ... estos.html

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P.J. Williams wrote:
3/23/2007 3:44 pm
Alas, no publication due. I was merely toying with whether the spelling χρηστος might have been an approved Christian spelling of 'Christ' at the earliest period and even one used in the autographa of NT texts. Though the idea would raise other problems (since such a spelling would be irrecoverable—and I wouldn't like that) it would allow Suetonius to have been right in talking of Chrestus while meaning 'Christ'.
That's a novel idea. The question hasn't gone away since 2007. More and more instances of χρηστος (Chrestos) are turning up at Oxyrhynchus and elsewhere. And then Martijn's "discovery" that the Nag Hammadi Library has a great abundance of Chrestos and Chrestians mixed with zero "Christos" and two explicit instances of "Christians".

Is it possible that χρηστος might have been an approved Christian spelling of 'Christ' at the earliest period ?

At least people were asking questions.
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The Parable of the Seed and the Weed in Context: a Sisyphean task

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Ken Olson wrote: Wed Aug 24, 2022 10:49 am This is the entry on Darnel (Lolium temulentum) and Syrian Scabious (Cephalaria syriaca) from Michael Zohary, Plants of the Bible (1983) p. 161.

Darnel and Syrian Scabious - p. 161 Plants of the Bible (1983) Michael Zohary.png

Best,

Ken
Dear Ken,

apologies for the delay, I managed to get out - and then not back in for a while.
I have republished logion 57 as it will appear in the final Part of the Commentary:

The Parable of the Seed and the Weed in Context: a Sisyphean task

You will undoubtedly find some entertainment in there - among others. Goodacre liked my invite to redo his version, yet this time based on a proper Thomas translation!
In related news, the paper also demonstrates the extent of (and inconsistencies within) contemporary Christian falsification - and concludes with

Naturally the main hurdle for claiming the direction of dependence to be from the canonicals to Thomas has also been removed in this way: whereas it would be a monumental task to argue that (let alone why) Thomas would have taken the plural weeds of Matthew and turned them into singular ones, there no longer is any need to do so now. Why is the seed allowed to remain singular in logion 57? Because both σπέρμα and σῖτος are singular in Matthew.
And so the myth continues

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Re: Why haven't Goodacre, Gathercole, and I accepted Martijn's claims?

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Ken Olson wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 11:12 am Then I read your case for Thomas 'From Adam to John the Baptist" being a reference to the book of Chronicles which begins with Adam and ends with ... who, Zedekiah? But he had a brother named John and allowed the prophet Jeremiah to be lowered into in mud/filth (Jeremiah 38.6), hence John the Dipper. If one first assumes that the saying must be talking about the beginning and end of the book of Chronicles, you might end up with some such rationalization like that. I can't imagine any other reason to think that's where John the Baptist came from.
It appears that you updated this entire post, can't see what the difference made - but just this section on John the Baptist drew my attention

Did you purposely leave out 4 of the 6 referenced elements, Ken?
You must realise that you really are over simplifying my entire case for John B here. Let me give you the concise sample:

46 IS said: starting from Adam
(https://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/1-1.htm)
toward Johannes the Immerser (https://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/36-11.htm)
Jeremiah immersed in the mud
https://biblehub.com/jeremiah/38-6.htm
and out of the mud again:
https://biblehub.com/jeremiah/38-13.htm
in the births of the women there is not he who exalted
(https://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-32.htm)
to Johannes the Immerser Immerser So that his eyes will not break
(https://biblehub.com/jeremiah/52-11.htm)
I said it However: he who will come to be in you he been made little person he will know the reign of king and he will be high to Johannes

The breaking of eyes. No one has ever been able to make sense of that, and again Gathering demonstrates his academic wisdom and candour:

2 I have not been able to find a parallel to ‘eyes breaking’. My colleague John Ray, the Professor of Egyptology in Cambridge, was also unaware of any such expression in Egyptian literature (personal communication, 9.xii.2011).

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Re: Why haven't Goodacre, Gathercole, and I accepted Martijn's claims?

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gryan wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 6:11 am Re: Christos and Chrestos

I googled and found this discussion of Christos and Chrestos among textual critics:
http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blog ... estos.html

There were two comments I found notable:

Phil Snider wrote:
3/18/2007 10:08 pm
Just a quick comment.

As I recall, some manuscripts of Tacitus, Annals 15,44 also record Chrestus as a reading, but, generally, Christos is read in.

Tertullian deals this point rather summarily in his Apologeticus 3,5 in which he attributes the error to a mispronunciation on the part of Latin speakers.

---------

P.J. Williams wrote:
3/23/2007 3:44 pm
Alas, no publication due. I was merely toying with whether the spelling χρηστος might have been an approved Christian spelling of 'Christ' at the earliest period and even one used in the autographa of NT texts. Though the idea would raise other problems (since such a spelling would be irrecoverable—and I wouldn't like that) it would allow Suetonius to have been right in talking of Chrestus while meaning 'Christ'.
Here is an older thread of mine that you might find interesting viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8881

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Re: Why haven't Goodacre, Gathercole, and I accepted Martijn's claims?

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lclapshaw wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:00 pm
gryan wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 6:11 am Re: Christos and Chrestos

I googled and found this discussion of Christos and Chrestos among textual critics:
http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blog ... estos.html

There were two comments I found notable:

Phil Snider wrote:
3/18/2007 10:08 pm
Just a quick comment.

As I recall, some manuscripts of Tacitus, Annals 15,44 also record Chrestus as a reading, but, generally, Christos is read in.

Tertullian deals this point rather summarily in his Apologeticus 3,5 in which he attributes the error to a mispronunciation on the part of Latin speakers.

---------

P.J. Williams wrote:
3/23/2007 3:44 pm
Alas, no publication due. I was merely toying with whether the spelling χρηστος might have been an approved Christian spelling of 'Christ' at the earliest period and even one used in the autographa of NT texts. Though the idea would raise other problems (since such a spelling would be irrecoverable—and I wouldn't like that) it would allow Suetonius to have been right in talking of Chrestus while meaning 'Christ'.
Here is an older thread of mine that you might find interesting viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8881

Lane
There's a new comment there gryan

http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blog ... 5049311664

And I'm too lazy to find out for myself whether you already had taken notice lane, apologies, but ALL pointers to xrhstos and xristos should not be freely available in

https://www.academia.edu/s/faa7f58532

Do scavenge the footnotes and click anything blue, of course.
Serious question: is that intuitive to do, do they remind one of hyperlinks? I am way past any and all points to make an objective observation about that myself
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Re: Why haven't Goodacre, Gathercole, and I accepted Martijn's claims?

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mlinssen wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:45 pm
lclapshaw wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:00 pm
gryan wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 6:11 am Re: Christos and Chrestos

I googled and found this discussion of Christos and Chrestos among textual critics:
http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blog ... estos.html

There were two comments I found notable:

Phil Snider wrote:
3/18/2007 10:08 pm
Just a quick comment.

As I recall, some manuscripts of Tacitus, Annals 15,44 also record Chrestus as a reading, but, generally, Christos is read in.

Tertullian deals this point rather summarily in his Apologeticus 3,5 in which he attributes the error to a mispronunciation on the part of Latin speakers.

---------

P.J. Williams wrote:
3/23/2007 3:44 pm
Alas, no publication due. I was merely toying with whether the spelling χρηστος might have been an approved Christian spelling of 'Christ' at the earliest period and even one used in the autographa of NT texts. Though the idea would raise other problems (since such a spelling would be irrecoverable—and I wouldn't like that) it would allow Suetonius to have been right in talking of Chrestus while meaning 'Christ'.
Here is an older thread of mine that you might find interesting viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8881

Lane
There's a new comment there gryan

http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blog ... 5049311664

And I'm too lazy to find out for myself whether you already had taken notice lane, apologies, but ALL pointers to xrhstos and xristos should not be freely available in

https://www.academia.edu/s/faa7f58532

Do scavenge the footnotes and click anything blue, of course.
Serious question: is that intuitive to do, do they remind one of hyperlinks? I am way past any and all points to make an objective observation about that myself
Yeah. Seems fine to me. :cheers:
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Re: Why haven't Goodacre, Gathercole, and I accepted Martijn's claims?

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lclapshaw wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:10 pm
Yeah. Seems fine to me. :cheers:
One of my more painful typos:

ALL pointers to xrhstos and xristos should not be freely available in

=

ALL pointers to xrhstos and xristos should NOW be freely available in

But you likely got that anyway
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Re: Why haven't Goodacre, Gathercole, and I accepted Martijn's claims?

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mlinssen wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 3:38 am
lclapshaw wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:10 pm
Yeah. Seems fine to me. :cheers:
One of my more painful typos:

ALL pointers to xrhstos and xristos should not be freely available in

=

ALL pointers to xrhstos and xristos should NOW be freely available in

But you likely got that anyway
Yeah. The first one made no sense. I use my phone alot to post so if I encounter something obviously wrong in someone's post my first thought is that auto correct is being helpful or that a translation program is at fault.

No worries 🙂
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