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Logion 65 Also another question about your translation of Logion 65. There is a lacuna in the first line noted in your translation as follows... ⲭⲣ[ⲏⲥⲓ]ⲥ. Where others translate this as "A good man" or " kind man" your translation is different. Is it possible that this could be ...

Exactly Mac, we can use their writings for reading between the lines, and the literally used words and letters contain clues as well. And they know that. You may be looking for clues and the "Fathers", knowing that, are feeding us certain clues. The dominant clue is the chronology of the ...

If you think this literature contains any history you will be mistaken. The church industry has simply fabricated a history. It's called propaganda, fraud and forgery. While the texts attributed to the Church Fathers hardly contain accurate 'orthodox history',* they do reveal history of the side-li...

It's a little different than Mormonism. It's a 4th century Mormonism on imperial steroids with almost 1,700 years of development. The early sects and the variation within the Church Fathers. It's madness what you suggest. The 4th century "Historia Augusta" has the same modus operandi. &qu...

FYI: no text ever mixes these, save for the NHL (and a minute selection of Greek fragments). Vaticanus, Sinaiticus and Alexandrinus mix but only because of the various separate hands - which naturally is most invaluable information. Thomas consists of one single hand save for the first 8 lines of l...

Nevertheless, the use of different nomina sacra in the prologue of the gospel seems to be significant. Thanks for your interest in the runes Kunigunde Kreuzerin. I'd have to agree that the different nomina sacra in the prologue of the gospel (Coptic vs P.Oxy. 654) seems to be significant. As does t...

If the Church Fathers are our only source of information about early Christianity why do so many here arguing for another understanding of Christianity which is TOTALLY DIVORCED from the Church Fathers? The "memoirs" of the church fathers are like Joseph Smith's "Golden Plates" ...

Thomas calls to "Carry your satyros in my way", and that can only mean that he has a permanently erect penis - metaphysically speaking Satyr ....... = σάτυρ ος (translit. sátyros) Satirist ..... = σατυρ ιστής Are these words related? What is the Greek word for "satire" ? Was Tho...

In the following the terms ligature, nomina sacra , abbreviation, rune, encryption are inter-changable. Martijn Linssen has pointed out that there are two separate ligatures - IS & IHS - in the Coptic Gospel of Thomas. The dominant ligature is the two letter abbreviation IS . This occurs 102 tim...

Jesus the Chrest – Nomina Sacra in the Nag Hammadi Library https://www.academia.edu/84288595/Jesus_the_Chrest_Nomina_Sacra_in_the_Nag_Hammadi_Library Introduction An unusually concise and even brief publication, this is a single overview of something I wrote almost a year ago: Faithfully translatin...