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I’m pleased to publish this Platinum post, for all you Platinum members, by Ryan Fleming. It’s a challenging argument that core elements of the Synoptic Gospels were written *before* the writings of Paul. Feel free to respond! What do you think? Remember, as a Platinum member you too can write a post for other Platinums [...]
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In my previous post I stressed that, contrary to what you sometimes may have heard or possibly will hear, Papias is not a direct witness to what the apostles of Jesus were saying. That is an important point because Papias gives a testimony that is often taken as hard proof that the second Gospel of [...]
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In my previous post I gave a short introduction to Papias, one of the Apostolic Fathers, and the one -- oddly enough (since we don't have any of his writings, just some quotations of them) -- that has garnered the most attention among New Testament scholars over the past some decades. Especially those interested in [...]
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In this nutshell series on the Apostolic Fathers, I now come to the intriguing, mysterious, and controversial figure of Papias (pronounced: PAY-pee-us), writing sometime in the early second century. We don’t have his writings, only quotations of them in later church fathers; but he has become an object of attention because he appears to verify [...]
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As many of you know, my new book, Love Thy Stranger: How the Teachings of Jesus Transformed the Moral Conscience of the West, will be published on March 24th. I have spent the last few years immersed in researching a profound shift that occurred in antiquity. In the Greco-Roman world, ethical obligations were largely confined [...]
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