"You have a lot of boots," James murmered. "I have a lot of legs," the Centipede answered proudly. "And a lot of feet. One hundred, to be exact." "There he...
Hi Mike, Thanks for the following material on your Blocks. Its of great help. I'm still working on it and will get back to you on that subject later. Meantime,...
... I believe that the larger design was a trilogy composed of ApJohn (1100 lines + 1), GTh (668 lines -2) and GPh (1234 lines). If block 12 of GTh (lines...
Hi Mike. Thanks for the reply. Some comments follow. I'm still flying the landscape of Coptic Thomas, looking for your blocks and other anomalies which might...
... I assume that you're not serious about looking for the sayings-blocks, since I know that you have the pdf file and they're clearly marked there. I may get...
Mike, <<The textual evidence so far adduced - even the connection between L42 and L11.1 _alone_ - should have been enough to convince the skeptical mind that...
Mike, I have an unrelated question to all of this. I wondered if you have ever seen the original coptic text. Not photographs of it, but the actual copy that ...
... No, I haven't. ... It's in very good condition relative to the other tractates of Codex II, probably due to its good fortune of being the second of the...
... I've reproduced the material you quoted, Dave, because I'm unsure to which portion of it you're responding with this comment. I _think_ you're responding...
... features ... do ... Alright, I'm probably going to regret this, but go ahead and try to convince me from the relationship between L42 and L11.1 that your...
... I'll do my best, but I'm very much afraid you'll find the result unsatisfactory, Andrew. There are quite a few textual features related to sayings 42 and...
About a year ago, I was ruminating onlist about what might be the importance of the number 42. It seemed to me that it must have been important, because IS42...
... I ... this ... I personally don't think I've ever seen L used as the abbreviation for "logion". However, I think "l" is a common abbreviation for "line"....
... [the word 'logion' and its abbreviation 'L'] Your objection seems to be well-founded, Andrew. Given that 'saying' is the word to be preferred, however,...
... There doesn't seem to be any agreement about abbreviations amongst Thomas scholars, even about the name of the text. I've seen GTh (like our list) and...
Personally, I use Gos. Thom. ##. That doesn't seem too different to me from citing Matt. ##:## or John ##:##. The lack of consistent abbreviations in...
Section 2 of Laura Joffe's JSOT paper covers the work of Hengstenberg on the Maalot Psalms (120-134). The numerical design he discovered over 150 years ago for...
Could anyone point me to an edition of the Exegesis On the Soul, other than the text in the Layton ed. Nag Hammadi Codex II volume, which I already have? And...
... I am not familiar with this book myself, but there is Bentley Layton's. "A Coptic Grammar (Sahidic Dialect): With a Chrestomathy and Glossary". (Porta ...
... In fact, it's not. Lambdin's book is a teaching grammar -- Layton's is a reference grammar, and is MUCH more complex (and much less suited to LEARNING the...
What about Lance Eccles' Introductory Coptic Reader: Extracts from the Gospel of Thomas with Full Grammatical Explanations,published by Dunwoody Press? Andrew...
... other ... I ... perhaps ... I asked April (the Coptic teacher in the family) and she wrote me ... Wade, here are the resources for the Coptic grammar...
Has anyone used C.C. Walters' An Elementary Coptic Grammar of the Sahidic Dialect? I've been using Lambdin for a while, but I just don't find it very engaging,...
I *think* that CC Waters is the grammar that my Coptic lecturer abandoned in favour of Lambin. If it's the book I'm thinking of, I was given a photocopy of...
... Hi Andrew, I have a copy of Walters, 2nd edition (1983). It's much less comprehensive than Lambdin - only 80 pages and no glossary to speak of. (Lambdin's ...
... Personally, I'd recommend Lambdin, for several reasons. Not only is it a standard college text, but it has a generous glossary suitable for use outside the...
In a message dated 24/03/2006 00:11:12 GMT Standard Time, ... Thank you. It is time to go for it, I think, as I don't really feel happy about being dependent...
