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Sadly, the book is utterly in competent. Well, I know you have worked at Qumran, so you are light years ahead of me, but, in my view, traveling in my one oared rowboat, their claims of Catholic interference ring true, when comparing, as they have pointed out, the prompt release of the Nag Hammadi m...

That sounds like fun. I had Latin in high school, a long long time ago. Yes, me too. However, unlike you, I remember nothing but the first half dozen words of J.Caesar concerning Gaul. Dementia is a terrible thing. I scanned the Latin text of both volumes of W. Wigan Harvey's SANCTI IRENAEI EPISCOP...

Thanks for this link to your blog. I had not known of Polycrates, before reading the material at your link. You have provided some text from Ben Smith's site, but it is unclear to me, whether or not this Greek text is properly attributed to Polycrates, or instead represents Eusebius' description of ...

Thank you Joseph, for this link to a valuable resource. I find it both instructive, and interesting. Well done! 8 - The Dilemma for Christian Orthodoxy There is virtually unanimous agreement among all the concerned parties - apart, of course, from the international team themselves and the Ecole Bibl...

If we assume this parchment is a proto-Matthew writing, it means that this fact was deliberately cut out by later editors. Thank you Jay, well done, excellent work. I regret that I failed to consider the possibility that parchment 24 was not a fragment of Diatessaron, despite having read, yesterday...

In the middle of the third century Dura could bear witness only to the beliefs of Syria and, with the discovery at Dura of a fragment of Tatian's Diatessaron, probably only to Tatian's interpretation of the Gospels. Why? Why shouldn't they have had access to Paul's epistles? Why shouldn't they have...

a real presence in this world, but his earthly body was an illusion. Very interesting misunderstanding of the word "real". We detect "reality", by means of sensory information, reaching the neocortex. If an object, "earthly body", or automobile, or diploma, or anything...

The fact that a scrap of a gospel was found under a massive pile of debris at Dura Europos makes any further discussion... Most forum members, I am sure, both true believers, and skeptics alike, accept as accurate, and reliable, the above assertion, concerning Parchment 24 , a presumptive fragment ...

Thank you Peter. This is an important, and interesting topic, very appropriate for your new forum, and MANY thanks again, for giving us this precious gift. Roger Pearse has an excellent collection of manuscripts, and a great list identifying specific dates, by century, with "original" text...

Thank you dewitness for a lucid, succinct, scholarly explanation of why Christianity is rooted in Judaism. I appreciate your effort to instruct me. Well done. My point is too simple, too elementary, too juvenile. I reduce the whole of Christianity, the entire "bible", i.e. new testament, t...