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I'm pleased to report that Steve Patterson has answered the note I copied to the list a couple days ago. I wrote back, mentioning a few new issues, but mainly
Browsing through the Westar Institute's online translation of Thomas from TCG, I happened to run across another amusing anomaly - there's a second 'man' in it!
My correspondence with Marvin Meyer having come to an unsatisfactory close, I wrote to Stephen Patterson last Monday to see if he would be willing to discuss
... Absolutely not. Neither Meyer nor Patterson think it's a gnostic text. Their translation(s) derive from two (unsound) principles: 1. That RWME corresponds
I have an observation, Could the lack of male dominance in the translation be a subtle or not so subtle left over from assuming that Gospel of Thomas must be