At 10:33 AM 4/21/2012, Mike Grondin wrote: Mike, Thanks for following up on this. But then, I'm always fascinated by the external evidence of textual...
Ivan, I didn't want to be the first to respond on this list, but since others have not commented I decided to speak up. I enjoyed your article. I thought it...
An offlist communication with a friend reviewing my proposed paper has caused me to think more deeply about the numbers involved in the usage of Greek words...
... Mike, I do not think that these words all line up on the scale you suggest. In particular, "plausible" carries the connotation of some external factor in...
Hi Bob, Yeah, it looks like I was wrong on a couple items, definitely on 'very likely' anyway. As to 'plausible', the OAD says that it means 'reasonable or...
Over a month ago now (3/24, to be exact), I introduced new member Wyatt Paul to the group, expecting that he would post soon thereafter. Unfortunately, that...
Mike, Will your publication be presenting theories for meaning of the numbers and how that meaning connects to the theology/theologies in Thomas' Gospel? ...
... If you're talking about the numbers 5, 24, and 100, nothing other than what I've said in the previous note. In a little book I have (Westcott, The Occult...
... From: Mike Grondin To: gthomas@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [GTh] The Counts of Greek in Coptic Thomas ... If you're...
... Thanks for this, Andrew. Related to this thread also is the efffect that the limits of 500 Greek words and 2400 letters in those words would have had on...
... Tim Staker says: I don't see how the ancients could have NOT done this. If you are using a numerical system based upon your alphabet, I think the numbers...
Well said, Tim. I think that one of the reasons that Biblical scholars are reluctant to accept the idea of numerical design is that they're not all that ...
Those who were involved in last month's discussion of Gnosticism might be interested in April DeConick's recent blog entries on the subject. She's on ...
... Hi Mike, I immediately recognized the fresco of Plaincourault posted on April DeConick's blog and went to the shelf to retrieve R. Gordon Wasson's Soma,...
My copy of Chris Skinner's new book finally arrived earlier this week. I've finished reading it and am impressed. Congratulations, Chris. See my review at ...
Although my main interest is not in Gthomas, some of you will know that I have exchanged email dialogues with Mike and posted some material on this site as a...
Just a couple comments on Dick Harfield's post: 1. I assume that most everyone here is familiar with Crossan's BOC (1998), or at least should be, not least...
To: GPG (Alpha) Cc: GThos On: Mt vs Mk From: Bruce We had been discussing things among the GPG group. Including this exchange: David I: Bruce thinks that aLk...
I have just posted a review of Petr Pokorny’s commentary on Thomas (Pokorný, Petr, Commentary on the Gospel of Thomas: From interpretations to the...
Judy, Pokorny posits that the Gospel of Thomas is dependent upon Luke and is therefore dated later than the Synoptics. As we have discussed on the list...
Tim, I just want to take issue with this statement: "The narrative framework didn't seem to protect the ending of Mark being lost...." The scholar's consensus...
... In light of this view of Matthew, how do you account for the Letter of James? There's none of what you attribute to James, and the rich are castigated,...
To: GThos Cc: GPG On: Matthew and James From: Bruce Mike Grondin has queried part of my previous note. It will be clearer if I repeat that part, and then...
[Judy:] Hi Tim, Pokorny posits that the Gospel of Thomas is dependent upon Luke and is therefore dated later than the Synoptics. As we have discussed on the ...
... about how he ... mainly ... the term ... helpful because it is ... [Tim:] You are correct. He doesn't use the word "dependent". Not sure where I got...
Chris, Thanks for this correction. I was unaware of the present consensus on Mk 16:8. I know that there have been found a few examples of writings ending...
Hi Tim, I, too, have read that it was unusual to end a text with 'gar', but after thinking it over, there doesn't seem to be any good reason why not. 'Gar' is...
Mike - This subject came up on GPG a couple years ago. For what it's worth for GThomas, here are some LXX and one NT examples of final GAR I posted at that...
All, This question has been pretty decisively settled in recent years. For an overview and helpful conclusion, see the widely cited article by Kelly Iverson,...
