... least indirectly related to 88. There are a number of passages in the Nag Hammadi referring to Angels, most of which are prone to Old Test. ideas, and...
Hi, hope ya'll had a happy Easter. ... Actually, perhaps not; I think I'm beginning to understand your argument better, but there's one place I still go off...
... How on earth do we *know* this? I see no evidence for it at all. ... I see no evidence for this, either. ... One would have to be (anal, that is) to...
... Since we've found fragments of GTh in various places, we know that messangers circulated copies of GTh, no? I really didn't mean anything more profound...
Randy writes: It would definately be useful to know whether the Nag Hamaddi texts generally used "messanger" in a technical way.....but the exact connection ...
... But even that, I think, assumes too much. What we have, in fact, are a handful of fragments from, I think, 3 separate copies of Thomas is ONE place (the...
Dave offers a critique of the Rules of ... and then then cites some relevant research which strongly supports his point. That got me thinking about the...
I read in the Catholic Enayclopedia that Salome was the daughter of Herod Philip and Herodias, at whose request John the Baptist was beheaded. Was this...
The information on this website is impressive and I think may answer many of the questions this group has posed. The paper on Gnostic heresy may reveal why...
Hello, This note was originally posted to XTalk and has been posted to GThomas as well at the request of Mike Grondin. Please feel free to respond in either ...
... From: "Anne Karin Alhaug" <annealh@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Cc: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 2:16 AM Subject:...
[Peter Kirby Wrote:] [Phillip] Jenkins proposes a different theory to explain the silence of Q & Thomas on the death or resurrection of Jesus. I would like to...
... The Jenkins thesis is relevant to our list, hence my request to Peter that his note be posted here, but I admit to not knowiing much about the book at the...
... Jesus Seminar ... That got me thinking about the subjective vs. objective contrast.... Question: (to Dave or anybody else) What *would* qualify as an...
The Coptic Mark.... The following is from Easton's Bible Dic. "At a later period he (Mark) was with Peter in Babylon (1 Pet. 5:13), then, and for some...
... As I see it, if you really want to attempt a "stratification" of Thomas, it may have begun as an oral tradition, subsequently written down in a number of...
Jim Bauer
jbauer@...
Apr 7, 2002 12:37 am
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Jim Bauer wrote: What's paradoxical here--and certainly this is one of the more koan-like sayings in Thomas--is that the repetition of the term body usually...
... From: "David Stanforth" <docta_dave@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:58 PM Subject: [GTh] GTH just #109 ... ...
Jim Bauer
jbauer@...
Apr 7, 2002 12:42 am
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David B. Stanforth writes> He started Seeking God's face, so to speak. Then he found the treasure. Now he wasn't a fool. He knew what to do with the money. He...
... The problem is, when "Arnal" is encountered by most spell checkers, they don't (naturally enough) recognize it, and give "anal" as the nearest equivalent....
... matter of Inheritance. Even if the Son sold the Field It would remain first to the Nearest Kinsman. Then outside of the Kinsmen. It would stay within the...
http://www.BelovedDisciple.org I found the above link while researching the two Mary's: the Mother of God (or least in RCC usage) vs. Mary Magdalene, still...
Jim Bauer
jbauer@...
Apr 11, 2002 2:52 pm
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... ending, ... the ... will ... returns to ... Jim- I think I asked you before where you got this "for my sake" from. I don't recall your answer, but it's not...
... From: "Grondin" <mwgrondin@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 9:11 AM Subject: Re: [GTh] #114: Beloved Disciple ... ...
Jim Bauer
jbauer@...
Apr 12, 2002 9:43 pm
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... ...to which your response was two-fold: (1) I'm not thinking like a mystic of the time, and (2) I'm ignoring your main thesis about MM supplanting Peter....
Virtually every attempt by scholars, and others, to identify one single thematic pattern in the Gospel of Thomas has been conspicuously unsuccessful. Now,...
... From: "Rick Hubbard" <rhubbard@...> To: "Gthomas@Yahoogroups. Com" <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 1:53 PM Subject: [GTh]...
fmmccoy
FMMCCOY@...
Apr 19, 2002 2:05 am
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Frank McCoy, after he stated that there were few conspicuous elements of Gnostic thought in GThom, went on to state the following to defend his thesis that the...
