With apologies for cross posting. Over the past few months, Corpus Paulinum has become a target for spam messages from purveyors of get rich quick schemes,...
With apologies for cross posting. It's that time of year again when the Society of Biblical Literature's Annual Meeting is just round the corner (Nov. 17th -...
I have just seen, from the Telegraph headlines (which I receive via e-mail) that Professor C F D Moule has died...... David Cavanagh Major (The Salvation Army)...
With apologies for cross posting: I recall reading that in first century Judaism "hallowing the name" was becoming (or already was) expressly identified with...
Jeffrey, I'm afraid I have no answer to your question, but a counter-question immediately popped into my mind: if that is so, what effect does it have on our...
Hi Jeffrey: As you know martyrdom in the first century meant "to witness" and the leaders of the Church who bore witness often to the point of death were...
... If the one who hallows the name is God, then there are grounds for saying that the LP is "eschatological" in orientation -- the object of the prayer is (as...
... Thanks for this. But I fail to see how it is in any way relevant to, let alone answers, the particular question that I asked, namely, if there is any...
Hi Jeffrey: I misunderstood your question construing it to ask about first century reverence or hallowing the name of the martyr. Hence, I cited Eusebius who...
In the Shepkaru article the words "sanctification of the Divine name" are used expressing the Hebrew qiddush ha-Shem. In footnote 2 on page 1 he cites : E. ...
Following up on my own question, I see that the article in TDNT on hAGIAZW (see below) points me to at least one author who supports the idea that martyrdom...
With apologies for cross posting. This is the second announcement of the now traditional (11th annual!) NT, Biblical, and Biblically related e-list members...
The 3ST as I've expounded it involves at its heart the hypothesis that the Double Tradition had two sources: part of it represents Luke copying Matthew ...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Ron Price On: Testing the 3ST From: Bruce [I went to Ron's web site in search of the following information, but not readily...
... passages, ... somewhere ... Ron, I'd be interested as well. At least from initial appearances, this result would not serve to separate your idea from mine...
... RON: Yes, for I contend that the logia was in Aramaic, and that Matthew used the logia. ... RON: Matthew translated almost all of the logia. ... RON: But...
[Third try] To: Synoptic In Response To: Ron On: 3ST From: Bruce Thanks to Ron for his prompt and detailed responses; I will have a slow look at them, and...
To: Synoptic On: Testing the 3ST From: Bruce Ron, On slowly working my way through your list of 35 passages which reflect source A, whether meditated by...
... Bruce, Papias' statement about the logia implied that it was never translated into Greek. There are at least three reasons why it was never canonical....
To: Synoptic In Response To: Ron On: Papias etc (ap 3ST) From: Bruce Still trying to figure this out. Thanks to Ron for his helpfulness at several points. This...
... RON: What proportion of Christians have studied Hebrew? I suggest it is a very small proportion. In practice the vast majority make use of translations, so...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Ron On: James From: Bruce Not all the recent points can be pursued without getting into more detail than is probably appropriate...
It is my understanding that, although a given MSS or language family may tend to quote from a given OT version (MT, DSS, LXX, Peshitta, etc.), that even in a...
... Bruce, What is so implausible is that Mark presents Peter as the leading follower of Jesus, yet it is clear from both Galatians and Acts that within 10...
... Lance, Let's consider a legal analogy. If witness A denigrates the character of witness B, do you believe witness A? No fair-minded person would do so ...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Various On: Jacob From: Bruce [Unlike most E-lists of which I have experience, Synoptic is set so that the REPLY button gets you...
... Bruce, This is a deviation which does not address the point I was trying to make. The fact is that you and many others believe 'witness A' (Mark) who ...
Ron wrote: Let's consider a legal analogy. If witness A denigrates the character of witness B, do you believe witness A? No fair-minded person would do so ...
... that ... tend ... Dave, The narrative pericopes tend to be longer, but it seems that they tend to be copied less faithfully. At least this is my...
At some point I might try to investigate how significant these numbers are, but I'll wait until I can devote more time to it. For now, I'm thinking through...