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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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 ...
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...
... 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...
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?...
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...
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...
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...
Hi Ron, As you may have realized by now, what I've been calling 'blocks' (and perhaps should call 'textual blocks') is different from the notion of a group or...
... 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)...
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...
From W. Wynn Westcott, _The Occult Power of Numbers_ (Third edition, 1911): "In respect to life and its divisions, [the Pythagorean philosophers] remarked the...
"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...
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,...
... 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...
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...
... I assume that you're not serious about looking for the sayings-blocks, since I know that you have the pdf file and they're clearly marked there. I may get...
Mike, <<The textual evidence so far adduced - even the connection between L42 and L11.1 _alone_ - should have been enough to convince the skeptical mind that...
Mike, I have an unrelated question to all of this. I wondered if you have ever seen the original coptic text. Not photographs of it, but the actual copy that ...
... No, I haven't. ... It's in very good condition relative to the other tractates of Codex II, probably due to its good fortune of being the second of the...
... I've reproduced the material you quoted, Dave, because I'm unsure to which portion of it you're responding with this comment. I _think_ you're responding...
... features ... do ... Alright, I'm probably going to regret this, but go ahead and try to convince me from the relationship between L42 and L11.1 that your...
... I'll do my best, but I'm very much afraid you'll find the result unsatisfactory, Andrew. There are quite a few textual features related to sayings 42 and...
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