To my bath, the brothers of the bridal chamber carry the torches,Synder, according to CBS, thinks that it is the oldest Christian object we possess.
[here] in our halls, they hunger for the [true] banquets,
even while praising the Father and glorifying the Son.
There [with the Father and the Son] is the only spring and source of truth.
Professor Synder is working on series of articles on Christian teachers and their schools in Rome. He plans to publish a book on the subject. Looking forward to it.
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Why does he regard it as Valentinian?
I don't understand why is this presented as a new discovery since the inscription found in the Via Latina has been already connected with 2nd century Valentinians by other scholars (e.g. Peter Lampe or Ismo Dunderberg).
It's not a new discovery. It is just that the media finally picked it up, 60 years of so later!
Snyder essentially added more evidence to Guarducci's theory. He analyzed a 1968 catalog of more than 1,700 inscriptions from Rome called "Inscriptiones graecae urbis Romae." He found 53 cases of Greek inscriptions with classical letterforms.
"Not one case is to be found in which, in the judgment of the [catalog]editors, an inscription with the classical letter forms found in NCE 156 can be securely placed in the mid-third or fourth century," Snyder wrote in his paper.
In addition, Snyder analyzed an inventory of inscriptions from nearby Naples, published in a series of two volumes in the 1990s called "Iscrizioni greche d'Italia." He found only two examples that might date into the third century. "In sum, Guarducci's case for a second-century date for NCE 156 is stronger than ever," he wrote.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44759608/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.Too_VewirzM
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