Stephen, a charitable fellow human would address a typo to the person who made it so he can correct it.StephenGoranson wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 12:36 pm NG wrote, in part:
"...when you refuse to continually misrepresent me ..."
I guess he meant to write, more or less:
when you continually misrepresent me
or
when you refuse to accurately represent me
Dura Europos
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it may be i need lessons in charity.
from you?
from you?
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And when I decide to become a master of casuistry I will turn to you.
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There is also reason to suppose Stephen that the further up the hierarchy of biblical scholarship the greater the confirmation bias becomes. Momigliano as a classical scholar refers to them as the "insiders"StephenGoranson wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 12:39 pm Pete
will you ever get over repeating (re-Pete-ing?)
Clark Hopkins and his (reported) first impressions, while
ignoring sometimes better-informed scads of other later scholars on the subject?
Not holding breath.
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If, Pete, you are suggesting that all scholars who consider the building to be Christian, are themselves Christian, then you are mistaken.
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I did not suggest that. I have suggested that the field of biblical scholarship is not immune to confirmation bias.
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Pete, can you name a Jewish scholar who claimed that the building in question was Jewish?
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Stephen. The proposition that, what we regard at Dura as a type of Christian religious room may actually be a type of Jewish religious room, is a novel claim. AFAIK I am the first to propose this alternate explanation of the evidence.StephenGoranson wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 1:56 pm Pete, can you name a Jewish scholar who claimed that the building in question was Jewish?
I do know a Jewish scholar who claimed that the Christian nomina sacra were "individual freaks"
I'd be happy to hear from a Jewish scholar who has the time to examine this matter.
I also asked you earlier whether you are able to find a copy of an article you yourself cited on your published article. Here are the details again:
an article of 1963 by R. de Buisson - "L'inscriptions de la niche centrale de la synagogue de Doura-Europos" (Syria 40) which argues that one artist worked at both the church house and the synagogue. The footnote says: "He claims that two inscriptions in the two buildings refer to the same man (supposedly named Sisa or Siseos)"
Does XPIC refer to Christ" in the The Sisaeus Graffito:
ΤΟΝ ΧΡΙC ΜΝΗCΚΕCΤΕ CΙCΕΟΝ TON ΤAΠΙΝΟΝ
You may recall that I pointed out XPIC as XPIC(TES) a “usual” (meaning the first 4 letters) abbreviation of Χρίστης – Χρίσ[της] - one who colours with whitewash, a whitewasher or stucco-maker.
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You're either seeking after truth or engaged in an partisan pseudo-intellectual war against things you don't even believe exist. What bravery! No wonder these ideas don't catch on. At least Don Quixote was noble. He could be admired.
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SA I seek the historical truth of Christian origins, and to this end I have prepared a map of the ancient historical evidence. If you can accept this then you and I and everyone else will be better off.
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