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TECHNICAL PAPERS By Horace H. Bradley Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------APPENDIX I:----------------------------------------------------------- ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND THE BELIEFS THEY BATTLED, ORGANIZED BY THEOLOGIAN, CENTURY AND TEACHING OR GROUP COMBATTED * Alphabetical and chronological listings of the Orthodox; pages 4-15 ------------------------------------------------------------APPENDIX II:--------------------------------------------------------- BELIEF, OTHER THAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN, ORGANIZED BY THEOLOGIAN, CENTURY, AND TEACHING * Alphabetical and chronological listings of the Non-Orthodox; pages 15-25 -----------------------------------------------------------APPENDIX III:--------------------------------------------------------- THE 21 APOSTLES An examination of the apostolicity of 29 people credited with the title “Apostle” [James of Zebedee, Andrew, John of Zebedee, Peter, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon of Cleopas, James of Alphaeus, Judas Iscariot, Judas of James, Nathanael, Thaddaeus, Levi of Alphaeus, Peter-not-Cephas, Alphaeus, Aristion, Barnabas, Buni, John the Elder, Lebbaeus, Matthai, Matthias, Naqai, Nezer, Paul, Simon, Thoda] as found in apostolic lists in the following 17 documents: (1) Mark 3:13-19 (70-80AD); (2) Acts 1:12-14 (70-80); (3) Matthew 10:2-4 (c.80); (4) John 21:2 (90-100); (5) Luke 6:12-16 (80-100); (6) Testament of the Oracles of the Lord (110-130) (7) Gospel of Peter 14:60 (c.150); (8) Gospel of the Ebionites (150-200); (9) Wisdom of Jesus Christ (perhaps 150-200); (10) First Book of Jeu 1-3 (perhaps 200-220); (11) Recognitions of Clement I:55-62 (211-231); (12) Acts of Thomas 1 (before c.250); (13) Manichaean Psalm Book (250-300); (14) Manichaean Psalm Book (250-300); (15) Apostolic Church Order (c.300) (16) Letter of the Apostles to the Christians of the World (c.300); (17) Sanhedrin 43A (c.300).; pages 26-40 ----------------------------------------------------------APPENDIX IV:--------------------------------------------------------- A ‘COMPLETE’ LIST OF THE SEVENTY (OR SEVENTY-TWO) DISCIPLES (NOT BEFORE THE 6 th CENTURY); pages 40-46 -----------------------------------------------------------APPENDIX V:---------------------------------------------------------- 1 THE THIRTEEN APOSTLES CREEDS AND THE THREE TEN COMMANDMENTS An examination of the wording of the Apostle’s Creed as found in the following thirteen documents: (1) The Creed of Tertullian of Carthage (c.220AD); (2) The Creed of Cyprian of Carthage (c.250); (3) The Creed of Novatian of Rome (c.260); (4) The Old Roman Form (before 341AD); (5) The Creed of Eusebius of Vercelli (c.350); (6) The Creed of the church at Aquileia (c.390); (7) The Creed of Rufinus of Aquileia (c.390); (8) The Creed of Augustine of Hippo Regius (c.400); (9) The Creed of Niceta of Remesiana (died c.414); (10) The Creed of Eusebius Gallus (c.550); (11) The Creed of Fortunatus of Poitiers (c.570); (12) The Creed in the Gallican Sacramentary (c.650) (13) The Creed of Pirminius the Visigoth (died in 758).; pages 47-54 * Also an examination of the wording of The Ten Commandments as found at Exodus 34:11-28, Deuteronomy 5:6- 22 and Exodus 20:1-17.; pages 52-54 ----------------------------------------------------------APPENDIX VI:--------------------------------------------------------- THE THREE CONVERSION STORIES OF PAUL, AND WHAT HE DID AFTERWARDS I: The first conversion story and the first acceptance story: Acts 9:3-9 (A) & Acts 9:10-19a (B) II: The second conversion story and the second acceptance story: Acts 22:6-11 (A) & Acts 22:12-16 (B) III: The third conversion story Acts 26:13-16a (A) & Acts 26:16a-18 (B) * The first story about what Paul did after his alleged conversion: Acts 9:19b-31 The second story about what Paul did after his alleged conversion: Acts 22:17-21 The third story about what Paul did after his alleged conversion: Galatians 1:15-24 The fourth story about what Paul did after his alleged conversion: II Corinthians 11:32-33; pages 54-67 ---------------------------------------------------------APPENDIX VII:-------------------------------------------------------- VARIABLES IN THE DATING OF FIRST CENTURY CHRISTIAN DOCUMENTS Rational discussion demands the structure of a framework within which the ebb and flow of dialogue takes place. This is as true of religious documentation as it is of scientific experiment. We are so used, in this degenerate age, to the flagrant substitution of private opinion in place of constructed argument—particularly where political or religious matters are concerned—that we tend to think that religious objectivity is impossible. The purpose of this essay is to establish an example of structured objective religious argumentative framework. We shall look in detail at the logically dated approximation of a known date [the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth]; of a known legend [that one of the monarchs of the kingdom of Osroene (c.136BC to 216AD) named Abgar {according to the legend, Abgar V Ukkama (the Black, 4BC-50AD)} exchanged letters with Jesus of Nazareth]; and a pair of known documents [two works of the Received New Testament known as I Peter and II Peter].; pages 67-84 2 --------------------------------------------------------APPENDIX VIII:-------------------------------------------------------- OLD TESTAMENT CANONICAL APOCRYPHA AND JEWISH AND CHRISTIANIZED PSEUDEPIGRAPHA A demonstration in five tables of (1) the total number and titles of officially accepted Old Testament apocrypha (column 1); (2) the official canon of the apocrypha of the Old Testament in the New Oxford Annotated Bible (column 2); (3) an organization of 98 books of Old and New Testament apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of varying degrees of canonicity, as compiled by Charlesworth (The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament: Prolegomena for the Study of Christian Origins, Cambridge University Press, 1985, xvii-xxi) (column 3); (4) a collection of 26 texts from column two, as compiled by Sparis (The Apocryphal Old Testament, Oxford University Press, 1990, 1-967 pages of translations and introductions to the 26 texts (column 4); and (5) 56 items from the apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature as a whole which are also taken as portions of the Fragments of the New Testament (ed. Horace H. Bradley, Internet version, 1998) on the grounds that their texts demonstrate various degrees of Christianization (column 5).; pages 84-87 ----------------------------------------------------------APPENDIX IX:---------------------------------------------------------- CHRISTIAN BEGINNINGS IN SEVENTY REGIONS OF THE WORLD The development of Christianity is very briefly traced from its very beginnings to about the year 1000 AD, occasionally through to the Late Middle Ages, for the ancient Patriarchal Sees and more than sixty countries, all of which are contained in modern Europe, Asia, and north- and north-eastern Africa. The material is anagrammatically keyed to the Bibliography at the end of this paper; each major entry is referenced. The intent here is to present in a decentralized manner a sketch only of the very beginnings of the world’s largest monotheism. The virtue of this compendia is that it is comprehensive, systematic, logically fractionated, and something that may sereve as a basis for further study.; pages 88-143 -----------------------------------------------------------APPENDIX X:--------------------------------------------------------- THE RELIGION OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Nowhere is there mentioned in the accounts preserved by Dr. John Watson of the fascinating crimes solved by the eminent consulting detective, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, even a hint of religious observance carried out by this most formidable of analytical minds. Only once does he enter (and then in disguise) a religious establishment of any kind; never is he to be found at prayer; one can count upon the fingers of one hand the number of clergymen he so much as exchanges words with in passing. And yet, Sherlock Holmes is the product of his age, an age in which the exemplars thereof—whether they were practitioners of religious custom or no—carried about with them a certain noble religious philosophy, an attitude of spirit which saw people as capable of great kindness and decency, and who behaved as if their lives should be lieved according to a series of ethical principles, the result of which would be to uplift the general attitude of life of everyone who came in contact with them. The idea was to live a life beyond reproach—beyond reproach, but not be cowardly or unmanly in the process. A difficult thing to do; an impossible thing to do—and yet, there have been some whose arduous attempts were crowned with success. Homes was surley one of these. They internalized their religion, and made of their lives the very best ideal they could. This ideal they enshrined in aphorisms of their conduct. Such aphorisms are scattered 3 throughout Dr. Watson’s records; and it is these, as organized in this technical paper, which testify to the religion of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the world’s first Consulting Detective.; pages 143-155 --------------------------------------------------------- APPENDIX XI:----------------------------------------------------------- A COMPARISON OF Q AND WHERE IT IS FOUND IN MARK, MATTHEW, LUKE, AND JOHN That large areas of common subject matter (often containing similar phraseology) occur in the New Testament between Mark, Matthew and Luke, and that this must be accounted for by their literary interdependence—that