admin . Saturday, March 23, 2019 A page from Codex Sinaiticus “A person who reads the New Testament as found in Codex Sinaiticus and applies sound exegetical methods to its text will come to the very same conclusions as anyone reading a Byzantine manuscript written a thousand years later.” – James … Leer más
Saturday, April 13, 2019 Tares Among the Wheat – A Review A series of movies available on Amazon Prime Video includes New Testament textual criticism among the subjects it covers – but not in a good way. Rather than introduce viewers to valid aspects of the field, Christian Pinto and Adullam Films promote the conspiracy theory that Codex … Leer más
History of Views on Masturbation in Christianity and Judaism The view of masturbation being something to be avoided can be traced to several periods in both Christian and Jewish history. The most recent being the 1800s Victorian Morality period, where masturbation was said to be a damnable act, and the cause of many terrible diseases … Leer más
READ READ REVIEW Maurice Arthur Robinson (born October 13, 1947) is an American professor of New Testament and Greek (retired) and a proponent of the Byzantine-priority method of New Testament textual criticism. Thesis “Scribal Habits among Manuscripts of the Apocalypse” (1982) The New Testament in the Original Greek: Byzantine Textform 2005 Robinson was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, to Arthur and Olga Robinson, … Leer más
Last year, I wrote a three-part series of posts refuting a conspiracy-claim to the effect that the famous Codex Sinaiticus is a forgery made in the 1800s. Alas, the conspiracy theorists – particularly David W. Daniels of Chick Publications, assisted by Steven Avery – have continued to promote their theory that a man named Constantine Simonides produced the manuscript in his youth. Lately their … Leer más
Introduction Ancient scribes were at least as aware of scribal errors as moderns. Since all manuscripts were copied individually, each needed to be individually checked for errors. This process eventually came to be standardized. We don’t know how or whether early manuscripts were corrected. In a scriptorium, however, it was the practice that a manuscript … Leer más
4Q119 (also 4QLXXLeva; TM 62293; LDAB 3454) designates the remnants of a Greek manuscript of the Book of Leviticus written on parchment. It was found at Qumran cave 4 and is dated to the 1st century BCE or 1st century CE. It got the no. 801 according to the system of Alfred Rahlfs. The manuscript is stored in Rockefeller Museum at Jerusalem (Mus. Inv. Gr. 1004). The Rockefeller Archeological Museum,[1] formerly … Leer más
The Gran Loggia d’Italia degli A.L.A.M. (the acronym stands for Antichi Liberi e Accettati Muratori), known in English as the Grand Lodge of Italy of the A.F.A.M. (the acronym stands for Ancient Free and Accepted Masons), is a Continental Freemasonic organization based at Palazzo Vitelleschi, in Rome. It was founded in 1910 as a schism from the Grand Orient of Italy.[1] They are a member of the CLIPSAS, the international association of liberal Freemasonic … Leer más
Para su formación, la mayoría de los escritos sagrados judíos debieron ser vertidos de versiones arameas y hebreas al griego. Su traducción inició en el siglo iii a. C. (c. 280 a. C.), y concluyó hacia finales del siglo ii a. C. (c. 100 a. C.). Inicialmente fue traducida la Torá,[2] Libro de la Ley o Pentateuco y el resto del trabajo se completó paulatinamente, en los dos o tres … Leer más
The Sky is Falling: An Analysis of the Swine Flu Affair of 1976 by Joel Warner A major biological complication to the immunization campaign was its connection to Guillain-Barréacute; Syndrome (GBS). For the most part, the vaccination went more smoothly than even expected, with less than the predicted side effects and deaths. (Silverstein: 116) However, it … Leer más