Yes, of-course! And so goes my rant. So often people comment that the Gnostics were aberrant and even creepy. That they believed in a good God and an evil...
Hi Frank ... I appreciated your essay, it represents a lot of work. Interesting. But I did want to point out tha "Judea" is mentioned twice, both in GT43 and...
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I have just finished James M. Robinson's new book - Jesus According to the Earliest Witnesses - and it is a treat. I have long been a follower of his work and...
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Hi Frank; ... I've come to also believe that who ever put together GT did it very deliberately, and IMO did incorporate "signals". Just recently I came across...
... Christian interpretation of Tanakh writings should be avoided here. The "suffering servant" passages were about Judea/Israel after the return of Judeans...
... This is not a Christian interpretation. In GT52 we read that "His disciples" said Jesus was referred to by 24 Israelite prophets. The disciples were Jews...
... First, would you please cite the source you have quoted (appears to have been copied from an internet site)? Second can you cite the oldest known HB...
... It goes without saying, of course, that the name of Jesus of Nazareth is never used in these texts (or anywhere else in the HB, for that matter). ...
Hi Rick Chapters and verse as we know them are fairly new http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapters_and_verses_of_the_Bible "In the New Testament, the verse...
... Of course it is. Your reasoning is specious. No one but a Christian (whether a Jewish-Christian or not) would claim that Isaiah 52 and 53 are prophecies...
Greetings Michael, ... We do need to be careful about "rushing to judgment", it isn't a "slam dunk" to just say this hypothesis is false. In fact I'm...
INTRODUCTION This is how Mark ends in 16:1-8 (RSV): 1: And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices,...
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... etc, etc Frank … an interesting conundrum which leads to your question about why Mark would end his gospel in the "unsatisfactory" way in which he does,...
While responding to Frank McCoy (An Anti Thomisine Polemic?)a day or so ago, I noticed that different translators of Thomas tend to translate logia 108 and 114...
Hi Maurice, ... L108 does have the little word '2W', which can be translated 'I also' or 'also me', so 'myself' may be more justified in 108 than 114, but it's...
... wrote: ... etc, etc Mike: Thank you for your comments. A few other points, if I may, "while I have you on the phone" .... You point out: "...there's...
In the light of Perrin's claim that the Gospel of Thomas is based on the Diatessaron (composed 172 or slightly later). I have been trying to find our earliest...
Andrew- The earliest mention of the Gospel of Thomas by name is in Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies. Saying 2 is quoted twice by Clement of Alexandria in...
Andrew … you write: "In the light of Perrin's claim that the Gospel of Thomas is based on the Diatessaron (composed 172 or slightly later). I have been...
Hi Maurice, From what you describe regarding Clement and "Secret Teachings" his most probable referent is not to Thomas but more likely the Secret Book...
... From: jmgcormier To: gthomas@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 8:16 PM Subject: [GTh] Re: earliest Thomas reference ? By the way, in which of his...
Yahoo's so-called search feature is sometimes frustrating to use when trying to track things down in the archives. I recently got a tip from someone on another...
I am not certain how many members of this list would claim to be proficient in both Coptic and in classical / ancient Greek (or ancient Hebrew for that matter)...
Logion 52 of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas reads as follows: His disciples said to Him, "Twenty-four prophets spoke in Israel, and all of them spoke in You." He...
INTRODUCTION Let us look at Thomas 12: The disciples said to Jesus, "We know that you will depart from us. Who is to be our leader?" Jesus said to them,...
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... Frank: ... a lot of good excavation work in your note, but I am left wondering somewhat if we don't yet have a few basic Sitz im Lieben issues to resolve...
