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Until now, I have found, in addition to you, other scholars about the invention of John the Baptist: Jean Magne 's reasons: John was the noûs personified Greg Doudna 's reasons: John was Hyrcanus II Maurice Mergui 's reasons: John was John Maccabee Arthur Drews 's reasons: John was the Fish Oannes ...

The thesis of Linssen is that the prophecy about the fate ( violent death ) of John the Baptist had to be found in the Gospel of Thomas . Hi Giuseppe, thank you for taking an interest in my thesis / theory. With regards to this exact quote right here, I pose that Mark 9:12 refers to text, likely sc...

Dear Rakovsky, 1) it would require a very elaborate definition of the term "Gnostic(ism)" to answer your question in full, I'm afraid. The short answer is "not at all" and I agree among others with Gathercole's PoV. Thomas contains a bit of everything, but that's not the point - ...