A brief segment of the History International documentary, "The Rise of Christianity" mentioned an Apostle's village started before 41 A.D. by Peter and other...
The enigmatic character of the "lion saying" can be tentatively reduced in yet another way. Textual critics have questioned the integrity of this portion of...
Tom Saunders asks, ... "The Rise of Christianity" mentioned an Apostle's village started before 41 A.D. by Peter and other Apostles. It was described as a...
A village in the middle of Jerusalem? Healed at the Temple? Receive the Holy Spirit? Where??????? (see below Acts 38-47, Letter of Peter to Philip) Somebody...
... suddenly became eligible to do all these priestly things in the Jewish Temple. Or are we talking about the first Christian 'Temple" in the Apostle's...
David Hindley writes: I was being facetious in my earlier post about an "apostle's village" in Jerusalem, suggesting the term makes one think of something like...
... I've often wondered if the ancient literacy rate might not have been much higher than commonly supposed. We English speakers tend to think reading and...
I'm curious what might be a good reference source that talks about literacy rates in Jerusalem during the early first century. I keep hearing that it was very...
Michael Mozina
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Jul 3, 2002 1:13 am
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... From: "Rick Hubbard" <rhubbard@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 5:46 AM Subject: RE: [GTh] The Lion Passage Rick...
Jim Bauer: Here was the only response I was able to get from the TC list with regard to my inquiry about the Bruce Codex. ... Subject: Re: The MSS of the Bruce...
... superior human ... thus the ... victim? ... having ... sense are ... this "blessing"? A ... that ... Ron, The way I read it, we are talking about two...
In a message dated 7/2/02 9:17:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Support for this view can be found from an equally cryptic line from another culture's milieu,...
BrerFrase@...
Jul 3, 2002 2:21 pm
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Jim Bauer, Here is another fine response to my query about the Bruce Codex, forwarded with permission. I am still unclear, though, how the Egyptian Sahadic...
Dang! My apologies to Prof. Altman. I had indicated to her that I would remove the PS about how to address her, but omitted to omit it. <Would that be called...
Jesus, you ducked the question. Either answer it, Randy, or get off the pot.. Others are waiting. Ron McCann ... From: "docgroove1017" <docgroove1017@...> ...
... From: "jd576" <lowens@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 4:18 AM Subject: [GTh] GTh and Hermeneutics (Lance Owens) The...
fmmccoy
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Jul 5, 2002 4:47 pm
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(Frank McCoy) *Why* are they to go to James the Just after Jesus ceases his earthly existence? I have never heard the consideration brought forth that this...
In a message dated 6/30/02 10:12:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Interesting idea, but I personally can't get past the astrotheological associations of the...
Mowthpeece@...
Jul 5, 2002 7:31 pm
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(7) Jesus said, "Blessed is the lion which becomes man when consumed by man; and cursed is the man whom the lion consumes, and the lion becomes man." (60) "You...
The lion is considered akin to Satan in the book of Sirach, regarded as cannonical only by the Roman Catholic church. eg SIRACH 21:2 Flee from sin as from a...
... This question confuses me, Dave. Of course no Coptic dialect could be represented by the Greek alphabet _alone_. So if by "Coptic letters" you mean the...
Mike (Grondin), ... represented by the Greek alphabet _alone_. So if by "Coptic letters" you mean the normal Coptic alphabet - comprised of the entire Greek...
... That is the case - and probably the source of the confusion. The online images you refer to are facsimiles of the Macdermot book - not of the original mss....
... case" or it doesn't. You're confusing things by talking about specific referents of the word, rather than the meaning of the word. If I write in printed...
Dave- This discussion just keeps getting worse and worse as far as I'm concerned. It doesn't help me to understand what you're saying that you don't answer my ...
... whether it was majuscule or minuscule (i.e., lit., "large letters" or "small letters"). However, given what he is going to say below, the implication seems...
Mike, ... that it is unlikely that the original texts of the New Testament books were written in cursive script, because the rough surface of papyrus made it ...