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"Dating new testament documents" Lecture given by Peter Eyland at ISCAST (NSW) in May 2011. ISCAST Abstract: Dating NT documents has been a controversial matter at times, with some giving very late dates and others very early dates. In this talk various factors such as their physical, written and textual properties are discussed. This will include the materials, the ink, multi-spectral imaging and carbon dating. It also includes construction and provenance, calendric complexity, writing styles and transmission of various text types and versions.
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| "Letters of Introduction" were used by early Christians within Greek speaking Egypt to help identify them when travelling between communities. They usually carried the letter with them and it provided credentials to help them complete their purposes. |
Greek Letters of Introduction
Note: this is in pdf format It is fourteen pages long, and is 179kb to download. |
| Early Christianity in Antioch | Early Christianity in Antioch |
| Christianity in the Eastern Roman Empire and Iran: The diffusion of Christianity on both sides of the Roman Eastern Frontier | Eastern Frontier |
| Covenants in the Bible | |
| Body Heart Soul & Spirit in the Bible | Body Heart Soul Spirit |
| Glossary of Syriac Words and phrases | |
Other Christianity pages (scattered through our web site) | |
| Judaism in the Didache, Barnabas, Ignatius of Antioch, Melito, Justin Martyr | The Jews in early Christian Texts |
| In the beginning was the Deed! | Faust on John 1:1 |
| Quell? Literary sources in the Four Gospels | On Dispensing With Q |
| Cyril and Nestorius: the two Sons?, the Liturgy of Addai and Mari, the filioque clause | History of the Church of the East |
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References: Abbott-Smith, G., A manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, T & T Clark, Aberdeen, 1964 Reference: Bruit Zaidman L., and Schmidt Pantel P. Religion in the Ancient Greek City, trans. Cartledge, P., CambridgeUP, Cambridge, 1992, p.103 Buxton, R, Oxford Readings in Greek Religion, OxfordUP, Oxford, 2000 Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, Columbia UP, 2003 Gibbon, J, Athenian Society, Bristol Classical Press, London, 1997 Guinagh, K, Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Abbreviations, 1965 Harris S.L., and Platzner, G., Classical Mythology, Mayfield, Mountain View, 2001 Neils, J, Worshipping Athena, Panathenaia & Parthenon, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1996 G P Putnam's Sons, The Concise Mythological Dictionary, Peerage Books, London, 1963 Langenscheidts Taschenwortenbuch Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, revised by Sir Henry Stuart Jones and Roderick McKenzie, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1940. Found on line at Perseus Peck, H. T., Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, 1898 Smith, W., A Smaller History of [Ancient] Greece
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