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. 1. From wikipedia - 'Alongside Valentinianism, Sethianism was one of the main currents of Gnosticism during the 2nd to 3rd centuries ... Sethianism attributed its gnosis to Seth -third son of Adam and Eve- and Norea, wife of Noah (who also plays a role in Mandeanism and Manicheanism). "The S...

In "APOSTLES as ARCHONS - The Fight for Authority and the Emergence of Gnosticism in the Tchacos Codex and Other Early Christian literature", in turn, in The Codex Judas Papers: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex held at Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 20...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark The Gospel of Mark is anonymous most modern scholars do not accept Papias' claim The Gospel of Mark is anonymous.[6] A persistent tradition began in the early 2nd century with bishop Papias (c.AD 125) ascribing it to Mark the Evangelist, a companion and ...

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There's been another short thread on BC&H - viewtopic.php?f=3&t=865

Extracts from Nomina Sacra: Scribal Practice and Piety in Early Christianity by K. Solomon Evangelical Theological Society 2008; Midwest Regional Meeting 'The Church Convergent, Divergent, and Emergent: 21 st Century Ecclesiology' "Regardless of how or where the nomina sacra originated, a sign...

Marcellus of Ancyra Fragment 4 Fragment number Klost. 1 -- Rettb. 1 -- Vinz. 4 Source Eusebius, Against Marcellus 1.2; GCS: Eusebius vol. 4 (3rd ed.), pp. 9-10. Modern edition M. Vinzent, Markell von Ankyra: Die Fragmente (Leiden, 1997). Translator's Notes: The Greek word “Jesus” is used in the Old...

Christ from XS (or XRS) ... The code for Christ is XS or sometimes XRS, which could as well indicate Christos, or even Chrestos. In Coptic it looks like this: XC, with a bar over the letters. X is the Greek letter chi and C is the Coptic S. Scholars fill in XC so that it reads “Christ,” never “Chri...

The early use of "nomina sacra" indicates a canon was recognized 1. The external identifying characteristics of the witnesses to the text of the Christian Bible -- the types of abbreviation of the nomina sacra , use of the codex, a common pattern of names for the individual books ("G...

The “nomina sacra“, a set of words given special treatment by copyists in ancient Christian manuscripts, continues to be a subject of debate about what the practice signifies and how it originated. The words in question are written in a unique abbreviated form with a curious horizontal stroke place...

. Could Nomina Sacra* hide the origins or etymology of at least some of the words that Nomina Sacra replaced or are intended to mean? Could they have been used to conflate words with similar form, but different meanings, to be presented as one word (wittingly or unwittingly) ?? eg. Χριστός (Christó...