Loading...Here is an annotated list of books on 2 Thessalonians, most of them relevant to all the Deutero-Pauline epistles (that is, the letters that are assigned a “secondary” standing in the New Testament collection of Paul’s letters because scholars doubt they were actually composed by Paul himself) with a couple of commentaries that deal with 2 Thessalonians. One benefit of serious commentaries is that they always begin by discussing major critical issues in understanding a book: authorship, date, historical context, major themes, disputed issues, and so on.
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Dear Barth just corection of one marginal fals fact you said in New Testament Scholar: The Story of Jesus was Completely Made Up. Namely Cesaran Cut acuteally doesnt come from Ceasar and his mother survived – and even then it was really for hopeless situation, people were more normal then some now. I asked ChatGPT:
No, Caesar’s mother, Aurelia Cotta, survived childbirth—which means Julius Caesar was not born by caesarean section, at least not in the sense we understand today.
Here’s why:
In ancient Rome, caesarean sections were only performed on women who were dead or dying, as the procedure was nearly always fatal before modern surgical techniques.
Aurelia lived for many years after Caesar’s birth and was even active in his political life. She died around 54 BC, while Caesar was born in 100 BC.
What about the name “Caesar”?
The popular myth that Julius Caesar gave his name to the caesarean section is false. In fact:
The name “Caesar” likely comes from a Latin root meaning “hairy” or “cut”, and some earlier Roman ancestors may have been born via postmortem caesarean, which could have inspired the name.
The term “caesarean” comes from the Latin verb caedere meaning “to cut”, and predates Julius Caesar.
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