... I'm at a loss to explain that. I guess maybe Benedict has ahold of the same version, but I'm unable to find it. Both current presentations ...
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Judy Redman
judyr54
Jan 27, 2006 11:36 am
... Yep, the version of it that I have (downloaded last year some time) L52 says "you have left he who lives in your presence ( ),..." I, of course, like...
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Dr Simon Gathercole
gathers74
Jan 27, 2006 12:25 pm
Can we just dispel some myths about ebol. It generally has an approximate sense of "out" (it's related to the verb bwl, to loosen, untie), but in combination...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Jan 27, 2006 4:02 pm
... Yes, but more closely related to the masculine noun BOL, I think - which means 'the outside', according to Lambdin. ... Exactly. I've translated it a...
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Ron McCann
ronmccann1
Jan 27, 2006 8:21 pm
Thank's Mike, My copy is one typed up from your web-site by Monica Johannsen may years back, and E-mailed to me. For some reason, I was unable to download your...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Jan 27, 2006 10:09 pm
... More likely I had it in there a long time back, before the Nov 2002 version that I worked up for the SBL meeting that year. There's probably a number of ...
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Dr Simon Gathercole
gathers74
Jan 30, 2006 8:11 am
Mike, Sure: vb BWL, n. BOL, adv. EBOL are all cognates. S ... Dr Simon Gathercole Senior Lecturer in New Testament University of Aberdeen 01224 272374...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 13, 2006 7:41 pm
Because the list has been relatively quiet for awhile, and because of our recent discussion of orality, and because some new members may not be aware of a...
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David Hindley
dchindley
Feb 13, 2006 11:07 pm
Mike, Soon we're going to have to start calling you "Michael the Pythagorean." Dave ... From:...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 14, 2006 9:31 pm
Hi Dave- I've located the Laura Joffe material I was referring to. The article in question is "The Answer to the Meaning of Life, the Universe and the ...
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David Arbuckle
ossobuccoman
Feb 15, 2006 4:16 am
This is fascinating Mike. thanks for the info. I appreciate your input on the list. dave [arbuckle] ... Ed note: Just to be clear, the "Dave" in the greeting...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 17, 2006 4:30 pm
Why should we be concerned with the presence of one design element within the Coptic GTh? Because (1) it may be the tip of an iceberg, (2) it tells us ...
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Andrew Bernhard
abernhar
Feb 17, 2006 9:00 pm
Mike, I have seen you post quite a few emails over the years about your design theory of the Gospel of Thomas. And with all due respect, I have to say that...
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BitsyCat1@...
bitsycat2
Feb 18, 2006 3:55 am
... If I may? IT would appear historically that the educated of that time, such as a scribe would be, would think nothing of organizing a text into what might...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 18, 2006 5:01 am
... By showing that it's reasonable to suppose that the evidence adduced for it could have been the result of randomness - or by showing that the theory goes...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 18, 2006 6:20 am
... I tend not to agree that it was the person who actually penned tractate 2 of codex II that was responsible for the design of it. However, that issue is ...
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Ron McCann
ronmccann1
Feb 18, 2006 8:00 pm
At 12:06 AM 18/02/06, Mike wrote: (snipped material) ... I'm not sure Mike, that you can hang you hat on or rely too much on the 6A and 14 question and answer...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 19, 2006 7:40 am
... I'm not. It's just that I consider the 6/14 situation suspicious - not so much that it couldn't have happened in the first instance, but that it wasn't...
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Ron McCann
ronmccann1
Feb 20, 2006 7:46 pm
Hi Mike. ... I seems to me that since the error appears to have been made in the Greek version, the prelimilary question is why didn't the Greeks correct it?...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 20, 2006 11:26 pm
Hi Ron, Thanks for your thoughtful analysis. I'll just respond to part of it here. ... Yes, I'm quite sure they noticed it. The reason I'm rather certain about...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 24, 2006 7:42 am
Although I've expressed the belief that it's significant both that there's 24 blocks in Coptic Thomas, and that saying 42 (line 280) is block 6 - the first...
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Ron McCann
ronmccann1
Feb 24, 2006 8:04 pm
Mike, I'm sure you have it posted somewhere, so can you direct me to where you list the 24 blocks, where each begins and ends? I remember some years ago trying...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 26, 2006 7:48 am
Hi Ron, As you may have realized by now, what I've been calling 'blocks39; (and perhaps should call 'textual blocks') is different from the notion of a group or...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 27, 2006 7:25 pm
... Maybe not, Ron. If you were to consider the possibility that some rearrangement of sayings and/or sayings-blocks (in my sense of physical blocks of text)...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 28, 2006 8:21 pm
I've recently been doing some research on a couple of items mentioned by Laura Joffe in her JSOT article 'The Answer to the Meaning of Life, the Universe and...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 28, 2006 10:43 pm
From W. Wynn Westcott, _The Occult Power of Numbers_ (Third edition, 1911): "In respect to life and its divisions, [the Pythagorean philosophers] remarked the...
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Rogi
rogionline
Mar 2, 2006 2:33 am
"You have a lot of boots," James murmered. "I have a lot of legs," the Centipede answered proudly. "And a lot of feet. One hundred, to be exact." "There he...
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Ron McCann
ronmccann1
Mar 2, 2006 7:27 pm
Hi Mike, Thanks for the following material on your Blocks. Its of great help. I'm still working on it and will get back to you on that subject later. Meantime,...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Mar 2, 2006 9:24 pm
... I believe that the larger design was a trilogy composed of ApJohn (1100 lines + 1), GTh (668 lines -2) and GPh (1234 lines). If block 12 of GTh (lines...
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Ron McCann
ronmccann1
Mar 3, 2006 8:55 pm
Hi Mike. Thanks for the reply. Some comments follow. I'm still flying the landscape of Coptic Thomas, looking for your blocks and other anomalies which might...