... That may be so, but I doubt whether the prospective audience would have understood the surface details of the parable in this way, thus I doubt that this...
A very fine note, George. I enjoyed reading it. I wish you'd write in more often - though it's disconcerting that I had forgotten my own point about 'TOTE' in...
Mike, A parable is a way of expressing some theological or mystical concept 'A' in terms of a story 'B'. By deep similitude I meant that there should be some ...
Thanks Mike. I'm relieved to finally get back to your point about "TOTE" and free up that space in my mind where my speculative thoughts about it were...
... John asks, Have you ever considered that this might be allegorical. The Man might be the "Lord God", and He is putting to the sword his "own house...
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fmmccoy
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Oct 18, 2003 3:30 am
... From: "Tom Saunders" <tom@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 1:33 PM Subject: [GTh] Parables (snip) ... ...
... that ... force ... The thing is, it's not clear that the supposed assassin is evil. You yourself have said that you take the megistanos to be a...
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Oct 18, 2003 3:08 pm
Hi, Frank, ... of ... saved ... space-time ... curved, ... I do not believe it's possible to update ancient theories in terms of modern ones. Ancient theories...
Some syntactical features of the 97-98 pair: 1. 97-98 are a complete block of text in themselves, extending from lines 578 through 591 (14 lines). The...
I am greatly enjoying members' comments and contributions on logion #98. (keep it up people!) As an add-on, could someone perhaps comment briefly on the...
... Maurice- I myself don't have any clear idea about the semantic difference between the two Coptic words. As you point out, the word first used in 98 (looks...
Hi Frank, Thank you for your post. Let me start with your last comment first....... "I agree with you that GThom is based upon the 'divine spark' inside. In ...
... I've been negligent in not responding to this sooner, but a certain tangent to the recent discussion of #98 has furnished me with an example of the kind of...
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fmmccoy
FMMCCOY@...
Oct 21, 2003 3:12 am
... From: "Tom Saunders" <tom@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 3:16 AM Subject: Re: [GTh] Parables ... conceived,...
Mike: Although hermeniai are not my "forte", and therefor being uncertain that I can intelligently add to your theory, let me nonetheless table yet another...
... STM that in a text like GThom, "change of venue" isn't something that would have any great significance. "Venue" changes randomly, with no apparent ...
... dictionary ... murder ... humans, and ... that ... thesis, ... 586 ("J ... Mike, I wouldn't give up on your TOTE thesis just yet. I think it's important...
Hi Frank, "Thomas and Gnosticism" also concludes that believers came to associate an evil Godhead with the ideas they had about the divine spark. This is way...
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fmmccoy
FMMCCOY@...
Oct 22, 2003 1:27 pm
... From: "Maurice Cormier" <cobby@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:18 AM Subject: [GTh] Re: GTh as hermeniai ... ...
Greetings all ... I wonder if some of you might help me a bit with logion 68(B). I am trying to get around three difficulties in it which may or may not amount...
... Why not? In biblical writings, it wasn't unheard of to say that the place where such-and-such had happened would be erased from the face of the earth. God...
I have possibly found a clue to the organization of the GThom. Almost everyone notes some sort of correlation to Mary and Thomas as to the content and...
... It doesn't seem to me that this is so. In fact, I can't find the word 'light' in GMary at all. On the other side, I don't see any discussion of visions in...
Pursuant to my own suggestion in an earlier note, I've done a survey of the use of the 2nd person (you/r) in GThom. Many of these occur in dialogues, of ...
Believing as I do that it's an essential part of sound method to play devil's advocate to one's own ideas, I'd like to point out a deficiency in reasoning in...
... Apologies for cross posting! This is the second announcement of the 7th Annual E-Lister's SBL meeting on Saturday, November 22nd, at 11 am the Gramcord...
Bart Ehrman's recently published "Lost Scriptures" contains a translation of the "Gospel of the Saviour" a second century apocryphal Greek Gospel surviving...
