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Re: The dominical logia (for Ulan).

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 2:45 pm
by Ben C. Smith
Secret Alias wrote:We're just making castles made of sand here. The study of early Christianity is principally a study of corrupt texts that aren't recognized as corrupt texts. There isn't just the potential for misrepresentation. The misrepresentation of what we are dealing with is baked into the end products of all scholarship.
I will bear that in mind next time you quote one of those texts for me and then say case closed. :D

Ben.

Re: The dominical logia (for Ulan).

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 4:27 pm
by Secret Alias
It's one matter defining Irenaeus's position given that we have many writings of Irenaeus than defining Mark's.

Re: The dominical logia (for Ulan).

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 4:27 pm
by Secret Alias
I am not saying that no knowledge is possible but rather that any knowledge is necessarily limited to mostly irrelevant things.