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JD Reiner
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I make videos about church history and stuff for fun.
The Oldest Content in the New Testament?
In this video, I survey 1 Corinthians 15:3-8, which is often considered by historians and theologians (even the skeptical ones) to be the oldest content in the entire New Testament, dating to even long before the writing of Paul's letters to the Corinthians.
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Best Beginning Greek Grammar Textbook?
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In this video, I recommend what I believe is a great textbook for beginners who want to learn biblical Greek.
Gospel of the Savior Manuscripts
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The Gospel of the Savior is an apocryphal text that was discovered in the 1990s, even though its manuscripts had been catalogued in Europe before then. The text has also been called the Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon because of the location of the manuscripts and because some scholars have questioned whether it is actually a “gospel” in the same sense as the canonical gospels. The three surviving...
5 Facts about Cerinthus the Gnostic
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Cerinthus was a mysterious early teacher who seems to have considered himself to be some sort of Christian. Because nothing survives from his own pen or the pens of any of his potential followers, it is difficult to know what he did and said for certain. The goal here is to show five things that we know about this obscure individual.
The Anglican Three-Legged Stool: Scripture, Tradition, and Reason
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Different Christian communions debate among themselves about the issue of authority in faith and practice. Groups like the Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, High-Church Protestants, and Low-Church Protestants each have a somewhat different approach to how they figure out what to believe and do. Does authority come from the Pope? Does it come from the Bible? Does it come from...
Jesus' Lost Teaching for Nathaniel: Where Did It Come From?
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We have taken a couple of looks at Papyrus Berlin 11710 in the past. It is a small 6th-century piece of an apocryphal gospel. Now, we are going to examine the saying of Jesus in this text and compare it to similar sayings in the Johannine writings (e.g., the gospel and epistles of John). Sources Ehrman, Bart, and Zlatko Plese. The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations. Oxford. Oxford Unive...
How was Jesus Buried? William Lane Craig vs. Byron McCane
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Historians have discussed the burial of Jesus for a long time. What can we know about it? How did it happen? What kind of burial was it? In this video, we will discuss two views about the sort of burial that Jesus had. The first view is that of Byron McCane, who believes that the burial was a dishonorable one. The second view is that of William Lane Craig, who thinks that the burial was honorab...
What are the Three Biggest Christian Churches?
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This short presentation surveys the three biggest Christian churches in the world today. I hope that you enjoy the show! Maybe you did not even realize one or more of these churches are in the top three!
Jesus' Lost Conversation with Nathaniel and Its Relation to John's Gospel
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Papyrus Berlin 11710 is a set of two small gospel fragments that record an otherwise unknown conversation between Jesus and his disciple Nathaniel. The scene is this text is reminiscent of Jesus’ call to Nathaniel to be his disciple. That episode appears in the first chapter of John’s gospel. Because the texts are so similar, it would be a good idea to compare them and examine them in a critica...
Jesus' Lost Conversation with Nathaniel (Papyrus Berlin 11710)
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Papyrus Berlin 11710 is a set of two little fragments of papyrus, measuring 6.5 x 7.5 cm, that records a conversation between Jesus and the disciple Nathaniel.The manuscript itself is from the 6th century, but because it is such a small find, there is no way to find out when, where, how, why, or by whom the original source for it was written (as usual). The conversation is not clearly drawn fro...
The Apostle John Takes a Bath!
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Once upon a time, John took a bath with Cerinthus in an Ephesian bath-house. What happened next? Bishop Irenaeus knew something about the story by 180 CE. Let's see what he had to say about it.
Ancient Astrology in the Hymn of Christ
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The Hymn of Christ is a mysterious song that appears in the apocryphal Acts of John (a 2nd or 3rd century early Christian text about the apostle John’s adventures after Jesus’ earthly life). In it, John recalls his memories of Jesus’ final days, including the night before his betrayal. The Acts of John seems to be showing the reader the words of the hymn that Christ sang with the disciples duri...
1 Apocalypse of James: Historical Questions
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This video discusses the scholarly debates regarding the 1 Apocalypse of James. If you are interested in the content of the work, then you can see my other video on the topic in my channel. Bibliography: Funk, Wolf-Peter. 2009. “The First Revelation of James.” Pages 321-330 in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One ...
The 1st Apocalypse of James
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This video discusses the content of the 1 Apocalypse of James, an apocryphal text that teaches a Gnostic form of theology. It is set within a secret discussion between Jesus and James. Academic Sources Funk, Wolf-Peter. 2009. “The First Revelation of James.” Pages 321-330 in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Vo...
Who Wrote the Acts of the Apostles?
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In this video, we explore some of the evidence regarding the author of the Acts of the Apostles. Who was he? What can historians demonstrate about him? To donate through PayPal, paste this link into your browser: paypal.me/jonathandreiner To donate Bitcoin for my work, use this public key: bc1qwnu9exmhp3ugcepvxvhn5tyw765zgeskgfm200
The Best Way to Learn Ancient Greek Vocabulary!
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The Best Way to Learn Ancient Greek Vocabulary!
Is This Really the Oldest Fragment of the New Testament?
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Is This Really the Oldest Fragment of the New Testament?
Xenophanes: Roasting Religion Before It was Cool
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Xenophanes: Roasting Religion Before It was Cool
The Gospel of the Acts of John and Its Historiography
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The Gospel of the Acts of John and Its Historiography
The Gospel of Thomas: The Greek Fragments
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The Gospel of Thomas: The Greek Fragments
The Only Copy of the Gospel of the Acts of John (Codex Vindobonensis Historicus Graecus 63)
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The Only Copy of the Gospel of the Acts of John (Codex Vindobonensis Historicus Graecus 63)
The Apostle John after Jesus: the Apocryphal Acts of John
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The Apostle John after Jesus: the Apocryphal Acts of John
A SHORT Talk about ANALYTIC Philosophy of History
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A SHORT Talk about ANALYTIC Philosophy of History
EASIEST Way to Write a College Paper! Automate ALL Citations and Formatting (Chicago Style)
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EASIEST Way to Write a College Paper! Automate ALL Citations and Formatting (Chicago Style)
THEOLOGICAL Interpretation of the BIBLE
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THEOLOGICAL Interpretation of the BIBLE
Judas Iscariot in the Gospel of Matthew
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Judas Iscariot in the Gospel of Matthew
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Thanks man👍🏼
The problem with that list of words is that they're not arranged in frequency order.
Anyone seen an equivalent document for Latin learning?
Thank you for your insight.
Imagine a text where one in five words is unknown. How much of the text would you really understand? According to the extensive research that has in fact been done on this subject, you need to know about 98% of words in a text in order to understand it well enough to guess the meaning of the remaining 2% unknown words. Depending on the text, and depending on the level of comprehension aimed for, you need a working vocabulary of somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 words (which will translate to ~95-98% coverage) to read and roughly understand without using a dictionary. If you only know 2,000 words, almost any text written for native speakers will be gibberish to you. Don't get me wrong: it is a good idea to study the 2,000 most common words, just so long as you understand how far it will really take you. Knowing four out of five words may make it easier to focus on that fifth unknown word, but since in most cases that word is crucial for comprehension, you really need more. In fact, in my view it's a good idea to learn using frequency lists until you're at about 4,000-5,000 words. After that though, an interesting empirical phenomenon called Zipf's law start kicking in, which means that almost any unknown word you'll encounter will be a rare one. At this point, frequency lists become both hard to produce and practically useless. With 95% comprehension, it is possible to (slowly) read authentic texts though, and from this point on the best strategy is to read, read, read as much as possible, without caring too much about explicit vocabulary study. Because now almost any unknown word is in fact a rare one, you need to read a lot (think several books) to even meet it once again, and so actually acquiring such words (which only happens when you repeatedly meet them in different contexts, about seven times for most people) becomes utterly dependent on a very large amount of reading. 💜🖤
Thank you what a great help! There are books around, like Jerry Toner's. Some of them are relatively cheap, but this list looks really useful and especially since you have organised them in manageable groups like this. A wonderful resource and so many of us are deeply indebted to (often) younger students who take time to put such lists together and make them available. Again, thank you.
I took a picture with this when I went to Manchester
Great thanks
The following is an extract from: Fragments (Pseudo-Peter) ch5.7 Written by Peter the Bishop of Alexandria It was written some time between 300-311AD whilst Christianity was still illegal and widely persecuted though not as a formal persecution as before. Over the following 2 years, Constantine would convert and legalise. Here is what St. Peter of Alexandria wrote: ‘…as John, the divine and evangelist, teaches us in the Gospel written by him, […] and the copy itself that was written by the hand of the evangelist, which, by the divine grace, has been preserved in the most holy church of Ephesus, and is there adored by the faithful…’ In 300 we have the original John and there is every reason to believe its preservation continued. All of our early John manuscripts (including the 4 complete NT manuscripts) match almost word perfectly (with the obvious exception of the beginning of John 8) to what we have today and it is hardly a stretch to date: P5 P6 P22 P28 P39 P45 P52 P66 P75 P80 P90 P95 P106 Códex Alexandrinus Códex Vaticanus Códex Sinaiticas All before the loss of the original Gospel according to John. The level of agreement and the fact these manuscripts are not all related shows the level of preservation and how well we can trust that, even if the wording is not exact, we have a fantastic reason (every reason in fact) to believe we possess the words and teachings of Jesus and the apostles as passed down by the NT writers.
HUGE RESOURCE! Thank you so much for sharing the PDF AND adding it in to Quizlet! Invaluable study tool.
I think Joseph already had sons and these were his brothers because of that relationship. I can't remember what book it is but it talks about how Joseph got picked to take care of Mary. If I remember right Joseph was a widow and already had sons.
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People have the original Scriptures in a Paleo Hebrew book. They have it in the museum. They don't want anybody to know about it.there is one guy that has it if u pay the right price
Thank you so much!
Switzerland postal union to international stamp treaties to arrogant jackasses pretending to understand starting to chap my ass . Play you understand the world and clueless about this country
What any of you feel.you the hope for the man of understanding ? False prophets if keep it up. Deaf when spoke plain now you can test this moment and don't know how to .play you make it up decide if passed it or play is no test debate educated guessers unknown lie exactly lies telling self to believe unknown to play known to the ALL and not even close
What arrogant educated guessers unknown to even self deceiving self and others injust self and others unknown pretend to be known deaf pretend to hear blind pretend to see what is a false prophet these days
Thanks! I want to translate them to spanish, by any chance do you have them on an Excel format? That would make the task o lot easier.
Please how can we compare and contrast speculative and analytic philosophy of history?
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An awesome piece is up on Catholic Answers by Tim Staples titled Why Did John Write His Gospel.
Thanks for the suggestion. The explanations about Cerinthus are good. However, he still follows the trinitarian-gnostic idea that Jesus was God, as most Christians do today. That doctrine is not biblical but a later invention. Jesus was the Christ and therefore purely human.
I like Blacks book. It goes through the easiest concept first and graduates to harder concepts later on. So it's really easy to go through the book.
@JD Reiner McCane, of course, explained why he considered the Mishna reliable here: burial customs are among the slowest to change. This is classic Craig, misread your source and point out a problem that only exist in your misreading. Deuteronomy wasn't written in Jesus lifetime either, yet you can bet Craig would be all to happy to cite it when he discusses Jesus burial.
This is garbage blasphemy inspired by satan and written by possest human in attempt to confuse the correct books inspired by GOD JESUS!!!!
Wow. Thanks!
You are fucking amazing, thank you!
Is that a Greek word??!!??
Very interesting… Thank you… I heard about Manuscripts found in construction of the Aswan Dam
this is great.
Rumor was Cerinthus wrote the Revelation.
Heresy gonna heresy.
Thanks for this analysis. I received a message from the departed to read this text.
A question I've had for a while is why does st Paul state he appeared to peter then to the twelve, then the 500 brethren, THEN JAMES AND TO ALL APOSTLES. Is James not the 12? And why is he included with the apostles as if he is the first apostle after the 12 or something. How does this make sense considering the 12 ARE the apostles then we have bishops then priest then deacons/deaconesses. Was there more than 12 apostles? According to gnostic christians it seems to be so. But why? this doesn't seem to be confirming Orthodoxy at all or any branch of it but Gnosticism. Theres a book ive been meaning to pick up called the office of the apostle in early Christianity to study this further but could i possibly get your thoughts on this brother?
Hi, Jonathan. There are lots of important points in there. I'll focus on the first part. Of the two characters named James in the New Testament, the one here is almost certainly James the Brother of the Lord, i.e., James the Just. He was not one of the twelve disciples, but he became the leader of the Jerusalem church. We don't know much about the other James, who was the son of Zebedee and the brother of John. Regarding the number of apostles, there were twelve main ones, but there were others in the church too. Paul and James are themselves examples of this. The earliest apostles usually had a visit from the resurrected Jesus as a credential for their authority. Bishops are basically just supposed to be present-day apostles who were appointed by people who were also appointed by the apostles. Some gnostics cared about apostolic succession, but others did not.
@@jdreiner6274 cool thanks for the insight! I always thought of James brother of the Lord and the son of Zebedee as the same person but that actually makes more sense thank you!
It's always a time of learning from you. Thank you, my friend. Keep on doing what you are doing.
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Jeremy Duff's book "The Elements of the New Testament Greek" is also a good book for the beginners.
I also cannot find another video on it at all nice work friend!
Super cool! I have never heard of this gospel before! Very very recent find! Please go more into this text good brother! Great work love it!
I am working on this text for my Ph.D., so there will probably be a lot of content about this text.
@@jdreiner6274 awesome I'm glad to hear it thank you for your hard work for the Faith brother may the Lord Jesus Christ bless you!
@@Johnathan909309 God bless you too, sir! Always glad to be in touch with you
Thanks for doing stuff on Possessionist Christology I find the topic very odd yet fascinating
The "th" in the name McGrath is silent. Ask any Irish person
Thw Christian single pillar: sola scriptura.
I love and much appreciate your work brother! Do you think that the gospels which put Christ's last words as "my God, my God, why have you forsaken me" could be sourced in gnostic Possessionist Christology? As in the Christ left Jesus on the cross because gnostics saw the holy spirit as Sophia if I'm remembering right. This could also be why Paul addresses in an epistle that we shouldn't damn Jesus and worship Christ if I'm also remembering right.
Hi, Johnathan. Thanks for the encouraging words! I think that Mark, who uses these words, is just quoting Psalm 22 in order to make the crucifixion a fulfillment of prophecy. However, later theologians debated about what it might mean Christologically. The Gospel of Peter may be more possessionist than Mark, but I haven't studied possessionism in depth enough.
@@jdreiner6274 fascinating thanks man! I appreciate you responding! I've never gone to school for this but biblical criticism for me, as a Christian, is very interesting and important in many ways for us all I think thanks again friend!
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Good and clear points.
Would a Galilean have had access to a family tomb in Jerusalem?
I would say no, which is why none of the gospels claim that the tomb he occupied belonged to his family. They say either say that the tomb is Joseph's or decline to specify whose it is.
"They do things in pretty much the same way, as far as the formal structure of the church goes." What does this even mean? Because I see VAST differences between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches...
Im Orthodox and I think what he means is that for a protestant things are similar. Yes from our perspective we couldn't be more different than chalk and cheese.
I simply mean that they are much closer to each other than they are to most other communions.
@@jdreiner6274 I'd say the Anglo Catholics are close as well, in how they do things.
@@EricAlHarb I actually attend an Anglo-Catholic church!
@@jdreiner6274 my wife is anglican from the British isle. It's a bit of mixed bag in America though so we just attend the Catholic Church. Lol. Mostly cause the nearest orthodox church is a 2 hour drive. The episcopal church we went to was….bizarre.
Great work!
very well researched, yeah some have said 90, some have said 125 some have said third century... curious if you can actually read greek. glad to see your interested in things like linguistics and new testament textual transmission...
Yes, I can read it. I've taken three years of Greek in graduate school. Glad you're interested too!
@@jdreiner6274 that's really neat. with the tech out there you never know" best to ask these things I think anyway... your greek is undoubtedly better than mine then...
@@jamesclark131 where did you study Greek?
@@jdreiner6274 I am teaching myself. I am actually blind, I use logos as it gives me access to manuscripts. I have definitely not mastered the language and I get stuck sometimes, but I am able to read a little bit...
@@jamesclark131 Well that makes your efforts even more impressive. I'm cheering for you!
This is great 👍🏻 thanks for your commentary