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@aesculapiusw @mir53381 @LasseAcademia Unlike you, I'm not an apologist. I try to approach these texts objectively, critically, and informed by scholarship, without preconceived notions of what these authors must have thought.

@Alfredovich65 Elaborate, isn't Irenaeus more of a Binitarian like Justin Martyr?

Irenaeus was proto-Trinitarian in every meaningful way.

@Alfredovich65 Right? Very reasonable and pious guy.

Pope Leo is even better than I anticipated

@Nicholai_Korea I have not seen you claim this? But I think it is irresponsible to tell others to ignore an individual, just because they do so.

@LasseAcademia Do I claim to be an authority that goes ariund correctly living clergy and calling them modernist?

Please everyone keep in mind Ananda apologetics on youtube left Orthodoxy and thus his content should be ignored for sake of your own peace.

@DerMenschensohn Leuchter (2006) denkt, Teile von Jeremiah gehen auf die Propheten zurück, besonders die, welche Pro-Deuteronomium sind.

@LasseAcademia Einen vertieften Einblick in die dazugehörige Literatur habe ich zwar nicht, aber ich denke einen historischen Kern gibt es da sicherlich in irgendeiner Weise.

Das alte Testament repräsentiert primär das Volk der Israeliten, nicht die Propheten: insbesondere vorexilisch glaubte man an kein wirkliches Jenseits, keinen irreführenden Satan, keine Auferstehung, usw..

@Alfredovich65 Not to be rude or discredit Dr. Ataie, but he frequently engages in interreligious polemics such as: youtube.com/watch?v=eU02_x…

Today I read parts of "The Gospels in Islamic Context" (2025) and came across a chapter by Ali Ataie. He argues that the canonical gospels (and the Diatessaron) are authoritative, and partly outlines how they may be interpreted consistently with Islam. Interesting contribution.

@AlFinlandi If you have not read this already, you may be interested in this: academia.edu/17321037/_Just…

I wonder if there's a connection between Papias talking about Mark collecting Peter's "memoirs", and Justin Martyr talking about the Gospels as "memoirs of the Apostles"? Both use a form of apomnēmoneumata which was also how Xenophon named his Memorabilia. Seems to have some bearing on the reception of the Gospels by the earliest readers and their genre.

@abdul_now Even though I dislike apologetics, this feels like this image to me:

Panic attack

@MatthewHartke To me, this argument is audacious: rejecting all the clear evidence for a late date, while dismissing the problems of an early date simply because one can’t imagine Daniel having such an early reception—which itself is based on speculation—is outright insanity.

A common evangelical argument for a 6th c. BC dating of Daniel is that the copies & references to the book discovered at Qumran (especially 4Q114 & 4Q174) rule out a 2nd c. BC date. From what I can tell, this argument goes back to R. K. Harrison (see pics)...

When I read more about the life of the Jewish People under the Seleucid Empire, it makes me think of what is going on today in Palestine, specifically the lament of Sirach. I imagine a lot of people in Gaza feel the same as the Jewish People must've felt (Willis 2020, p. 44)

@NeophyteOne For anyone interested in the dating of the Pentateuch and potential problems with a minimalistic view, see Benjamin Suchard's new article: bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/how…

@aabbbbcc33 Good post, I would add that we can say with a good amount of confidence that (the historical) Jeremiah claimed to be a prophet like Moses

A very misleading post. The Prophet from Deuteronomy 18:18 CAN'T be Muhammad, because the Prophet will be an Israelite! The reason he doesn't quote any scholars of the OT that support his position is because there are NONE!

How can scholars keep debating which version of Daniel is more original when one of them is literally called "the OG"

Someday I would like to write a book attacking both Christian and Muslim apologists for making bad arguments against and for Islam. Why just make one group of apologists mad at me?

@NeophyteOne @Alfredovich65 @Apostolic7262 @NexusHistory @IanCook321 I think the Hellenistic influences are mostly found in post-P, so that would plausibly date into the Hellenistic period at its latest

@LasseAcademia @Alfredovich65 @Apostolic7262 @NexusHistory @IanCook321 I'll check that out. I think however that the parallels to Greek texts are too numerous and striking to be ignored. If the Torah is not a Hellenistic creation it must have at least undergone a major redaction influenced by Greek thought during that period.

Did you know that Bonnie Blue was prophesied in 4Q184? @Alfredovich65 @Apostolic7262 @NexusHistory @NeophyteOne @IanCook321

@NeophyteOne @Alfredovich65 @Apostolic7262 @NexusHistory @IanCook321 Well, he is a minimalist dating the Pentateuch in the Hellenistic period, which is a minority view, see for example: Albertz, Rainer. An end to the confusion? Why the Old Testament cannot be a Hellenistic book! (Did Moses Speak Attic? (2001))

@LasseAcademia @Alfredovich65 @Apostolic7262 @NexusHistory @IanCook321 If I may ask, what are your thoughts on Gmirkin and the Copenhagen school?