... I often feel that when we look at the relationship between Thomas and the synoptics we're not playing on a level field and (to extend the metaphor) it's a...
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Jack Kilmon
jkilmon_2000
Mar 18, 2005 9:16 pm
... From: "Andrew Smith" <smithand44@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 2:18 AM Subject: [GTh] Re: Thomas Kernel ... We have...
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Tom Saunders
tom74730
Mar 18, 2005 11:45 pm
Hi Andrew, I just finished Jean Yves Leloup's "The Gospel of Philip.' He lays out the Coptic text beside his translation, very much like Kaaren King does in...
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Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson_min...
Mar 19, 2005 2:07 am
... I suppose you're talking about the letter to Theodore attributed to Clement of Alexandria that Morton Smith of Columbia photographed in 1958 and published...
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Tom Saunders
tom74730
Mar 19, 2005 9:02 pm
In response to Stephen Carlson, and Jack Kilmon's statement..... I think that Jack is correct in placing Mark and the pre-Gospel material in Alexandria....
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sarban
andrewcriddle
Mar 19, 2005 9:47 pm
... From: "Tom Saunders" <tom@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 9:46 PM Subject: [GTh] Thomas Kernel ... <SNIP> ......
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Mar 20, 2005 4:48 am
... What is your evidence that "Matthew" was ever in Alexandria, Tom? You make a lot of statements about Matthew that don't seem to have any evidentiary basis....
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Tom Saunders
tom74730
Mar 22, 2005 12:28 pm
Every time I look at the relation of Mathean stuff to Thomas, I do make assumptions. I think what is getting me is that Matthew does not mention the Gnostic...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Mar 22, 2005 5:04 pm
... I don't see that he's "in the middle of the Gnostic push" (ugh) in GosThom. He's mentioned, but not in a particularly favorable light. You're a long way ...
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BitsyCat1@...
bitsycat2
Mar 22, 2005 5:06 pm
... John Inquires Thomasine Gnosis? I m not sure Thomas is Gnostic at all. How can you define a Thomasine Gnostic if the literature is Wisdom literature. The...
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Tom Saunders
tom74730
Mar 23, 2005 12:43 pm
John Moon asks.... "I presume that Origen and others used the New Testament also to achieve Transcendence. What makes Thomas different?" Mike adds..... "You'd...
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BitsyCat1@...
bitsycat2
Mar 23, 2005 3:09 pm
... John Observes That would be Mark ( John-Mark),In Alexandria. Mark is considered the Originator of the Coptic Church. He is did apparently did found the...
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sarban
andrewcriddle
Mar 23, 2005 6:04 pm
... From: <BitsyCat1@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [GTh] Thomas Kernel John Observes That would...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Mar 23, 2005 6:31 pm
... No, Mike did not "add" to what John Moon had written. Mike's note was posted first, and without knowledge of what John wrote. Also, Mike's point was ...
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BitsyCat1@...
bitsycat2
Mar 23, 2005 7:21 pm
... John Observes I read the response and Im pretty sure it didn't address my point. Other than to admit that there were other documents which were already in...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Mar 28, 2005 3:47 pm
Recently, I challenged Tom Saunders about claims he had been making about Matthew having been in Egypt and/or Alexandria on certain dates. I've now learned...
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David Hindley
dchindley
Mar 28, 2005 8:37 pm
... making about Matthew having been in Egypt and/or Alexandria on certain dates. I've now learned that Tom based his claims on something that Jack Kilmon...
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Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson_min...
Mar 29, 2005 4:49 am
... A lot of the later traditions have Matthew die in Hierapolis of Syria or Parthia, which is nowhere near Egypt. Stephen Carlson -- Stephen C. Carlson...
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Peter Kirby
kirbtron
Mar 29, 2005 5:08 am
... Hippolytus of Rome, active in the late second and early third century, writes the following in this document: http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0504.htm ...
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Jack Kilmon
jkilmon_2000
Mar 29, 2005 8:30 am
... From: "Michael Grondin" <mwgrondin@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 9:47 AM Subject: [GTh] The Historical Matthew ...
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Tom Saunders
tom74730
Mar 29, 2005 9:56 pm
1. The 'placement' of Matthew with both Orthodox and Gnostic tools (scripture) is difficult. Did he realize that his writings were being used in both camps?...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Mar 30, 2005 7:23 am
... Who says Origen had an ascending tool? Didn't he have his equipment surgically altered to prevent that? (:-) Mike Grondin...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Mar 30, 2005 6:25 pm
... Anything "can be seen" as anything, but the concept of "monadology" is vague. Apparently, it's not just any text which involves numbers, or to which...
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fmmccoy
FMMCCOY@...
Mar 31, 2005 6:47 pm
Has anyone heard of a Gospel of Judas, written in Coptic and apparently dating to the third or fourth century CE? See this web page: ...
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Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson_min...
Mar 31, 2005 8:05 pm
... See my blog article "Gospel of Judas in the News" and the related links for more information: ...
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sarban
andrewcriddle
Mar 31, 2005 8:32 pm
... From: "fmmccoy" <FMMCCOY@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [GTh] Gospel of Judas ... I've...
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Tom Saunders
tom74730
Mar 31, 2005 8:34 pm
(1) what is "the monad" in the I Ching, and (2) why is the identification of such a "monad" in Thomas so uncertain and subjective? 1. The monad in the I Ching...
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Manfred Peters
manfredpeter...
Apr 1, 2005 3:02 am
Hi everybody, I was wondering if anyone had thoughts regarding the ambiguity of the different translations of saying 70. I compiled a few versions (below) and...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Apr 1, 2005 5:54 am
Manfred Peters asks: I was wondering if anyone had thoughts regarding the ambiguity of the different translations of saying 70. I compiled a few versions...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Apr 1, 2005 7:04 am
... There's a conceptual problem here, because this makes the monad logically dependent upon the existence of Yin and Yang. That is to say, if Yin and Yang...
