In fact, to the occupied nations of the Roman empire, the gospel of Jesus Christ was nothing short of a manifesto of peaceful resistance against Roman totalitarian rule and its insane imperial cult — read our articles on Onesimus and Pilate for a more detailed discussion of this. In our ...
Read our article on Onesimus for a look at why there might be a great deal of such cryptic code in the New Testament (and the Bible at large). Etymology of the name Salim The name Salim is obvious quite similar to its better known cousins: Salem, Jerusalem, Absolom and Solomon. All...
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The synoptic evangelists were writing during the first decades of the Jewish Wars and had to word their disapproval of Rome very carefully, if possible even more careful than Paul had in the decades prior (read our article on the name Onesimus). The hope on deliverance by natural, God-orda...
(read our article onOnesimusfor more on this). Popular church history usually insists that in the fourth century AD emperor Constantine converted himself and the Roman Empire to the teachings of Jesus, but he did no such thing. Instead, he masterfully deflated a detrimental resistance movement ...
the people of the Way were prosecuted and routinely executed. But this is also why the New Testament is riddled with code (see our article on the nameOnesimus). "Taking the land route" may very well have been some sort of idiom, like "going toArabia" or "settling in the Land ofNod"...
Still, in the Hebrew literary tradition, the art of the joke-name was not a slapstick gimmick but rather a fully developed literary genre (see our articles on the names Amraphel, Tiglath-pileser, Carpus or Onesimus). The Greek verb χεω (cheo) means to flow, from which derives the ...
respect for their own divine creativity never waned to the point where they abhorred the use of word play (particularly names of important royals were pretty much fair game; see our article on the name Amraphel, or the name Onesimus for a look at the Pauline equivalent of narrative coding)...