An excellent comparison of the Greek Oxyrhynchus Fragments and Nag Hammadi can be found at the link below. This is a Gnostic site, actually "The Gnostic site" ...
The "pearls before swine" saying is one of the most viciously self-righteous insults ever attributed to Jesus, IMO. If he said it (and the Jesus Seminar voted...
... "The pearl, should it be cast down into the mud, does not become more contemptible. Nor if it should be annointed in balsam oil would it become [more?]...
Hey all you Coptologists out there: A quick question about the Lambdin text -- I've noted here and there a few typos in the exercises, and am wondering about...
One wonders how the saying could be further interpreted when one considers that a "pearl" could be construed as a testament/treatise from a female member to...
... Hi Bill- Sorry for the delay in responding, but I wanted to check the notes I had made while I was working my way through these exercises many years ago....
The following note was posted to another group. I've since added the link mentioned to my links page - http://www.geocities.com/mwgrondin/x_links.htm. -MWG...
Mike was kind enough to share with us the link to Plumley's Coptic Grammar and so, in the same spirit, here is another link to an unusual site that has the...
Hello This is the first time I am posting a message to this site, some may know me from some other groups and some may not, for those of you who dont I look...
... The original words are different, though. L24.1 uses the Greek word TOPOS, while 30 uses the Coptic word MA (twice). Also, L30 isn't the only candidate for...
... word TOPOS, ... candidate ... and you ... Greek ... place to lay ... MA, not ... 64, and 68), ... said to ... grammatical ... disciples do in ... 24.1 and ...
Hi everyone, I have managed to get myself involved in helping with a Society of Biblical Literature project to develop a keyboard layout for Unicode Coptic...
Dear Judy, Thank you for posting information about Coptic fonts. This must be an issue everyone who has worked in Coptic struggles with. My suspicion is that...
... Hi Judy, Personally, I wasn't, so I did some googling. Happened onto ... http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/fonts/keyboard.html ... which raises a...
... Hi Andrew, In case I didn't make it clear in my note, which I wrote before receiving yours, I fully agree that sigma should be the 'S' key on any mapping....
... What we're working on is a a keyboard layout you can install on your computer to map the Coptic fonts to actual keys, rather than trying to remember the...
Mike and Judy, My further thoughts. ... uppercase form of sigma? An interesting suggestion, but I don't think unicode is prepared for this scenario. Does...
... to ... That will be extremely useful. I have a question about the unicode coptic. If I were to do a transcription of one of the Nag Hammadi texts, am I...
... This is one of the issues we are trying to straighten out. I think the lower case ones, actually, because I don't think there is a unicode character that...
I agree with you, Judy, that small case is probably the way to go. Also, I have discovered that someone (Logos) has beaten you to the punch on creating the...
Andrew, I am aware of the Logos keyboard, but there are things about it that I don't like. The most problematic from my perspective is that there are letters...
(Note: This is the first post in a series of five posts) THE SYNOPTIC GOSPEL PROBLEM AND THOMAS: A CASE STUDY I INTRODUCTION The three Synoptic gospels are...
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(NOTE: This is the second in a series of five posts) II THE TEXTS A The Texts for the Passages Here are the texts for the passages we will be examining, i.e.,...
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(Note: This is the third in a sequence of five posts) III ANALYSIS OF UNIT 1 MT 11:7-9//LK 7:24-26//TH 78 A. Mt 11:7-9//:l 7:24-26 Let us now turn to an...
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(Note: This is the fourth in a series of five posts) IV UNIT 2--MT 11:10//LK 10:27//MK 1:2 A. The Texts Let us now turn to an analysis of unit two, Mt...
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(Note: This is the fifth in a series of five posts) V UNIT 3--MT 11:11//LK 7:28//TH 46 A. The Text of Mt 11:11//Lk 7:28 Next, let us turn to an analysis of...