Hi Mike, I can help, at least with proofing. I am glad you are going to represent the text in caps, as close to the MS as possible. I think this simplifies...
Our recent discussion about the usages of the Coptic words for "fire" in GTh made me curious, so I had to look a little further. I checked 25occurrences of...
In order to determine the initial attitudes of a progressive Methodist Sunday School class toward Gospel of Thomas, class members were given a copy of the...
Hi Don, Thank you for your hard work... Yes, in Aramaic, 'noora' = fire and it is a feminine noun. So is, 'gawzawltaa' = flame. We might also be able to tell...
Hi Steven, ... I am missing this verse, so can't check it. [Mike, do you have it?] ... Sah. Mt. uses the word "etnEu," which literally means "which (they)...
Hi Don, ... Then I am pleased to clarify a little. Syriac was a distinct written dialect of Eastern Aramaic extant and in use before the Christian era, from...
Hi Steven, ... [snip] ... OK, so there was an identifiable "Syriac" in the early first century, and it even used estrangela script. I don't really have a...
Hi Don, First, the verses you asked for (from the SSTA Coptic CD): ... In Sahidic Coptic, the 'hai' - the husband - of Maria. ... In the Sahidic NT, the...
Yesterday was the beginning of our November Regular Contributor Program (RCP), which runs from 11/2 through 11/29 (four weeks). Featured contributors for the...
Hi Mike, ... Yes, that is because I was missing the part of Mark that had most of the occurrences. ... That was my procedure, too. My counts for GLk and ... ...
Hi Don, ... Evidently, they didn't. According to a NASB note: "Vv. 44 and 46, which are identical with v. 48, are not found in the best ancient mss." That must...
Hi Mike, ... I did not know that, and I find it very interesting. ... Yes. ... Yes, of course I'd need more evidence; the choice between "kOhet" and "sate"...
Hi Don, I'm wondering whether the reasoning behind the kOhet-sate investigation is sound. As I understand it, the basic insight is that the Syriac word for...
Hi Mike, ... It goes a little farther than Syriac. It is also true in western Aramaic, and is usually true in Biblical Hebrew. I don't happen to have an...
Many thanks, Paul ... Maurice ... From: Paul Lanier To: gthomas@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:58 PM Subject: [GTh] Re: \\\ Kirby's GoT...
Hi Don, If I might play devil's advocate a bit more, I had suggested that your reasoning involved the following premise, which ... But the reason you think...
Hi Mike, ... I certainly don't mind you playing devil's advocate, but I don't think I understand what you're trying to get at. ... No, I think the translator...
Taking up where I left off, responding to Mike: [Mike:] ... This little experiment does not depend on any list of books; if I have time I will expand it to all...
Hi Don, You're right that I've had trouble understanding how you moved from the kOhet-sate data to a suggestion that it indicates that certain Sahidic NT texts...
[Mike:] ... Thanks for recapping this, and for the numbers for Rev. ... No, of course not. Nor have I done so. ... I haven't either. On the other hand, as the...
Hi Don, It might interest you to know from earlier research done by Arthur Vööbus, that the original translations of the gospels into Ethiopic (i.e. Ge`ez...
"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." --Jorge Luís Borges ... The Sahidic and Bohairic are among the oldest Versions, though....
Greetings, Don, Mike, Steven, Paul et alia … I have been following the list's thread on "fire" and Thomas vs the NT over the last while and I find it truly...
Hi Maurice, ... I don't know who Howard is, or anything about his "Hebrew Matthew." I assume it is a modern translation, what they call a retroversion,...
Hi Maurice, ... Then you comment: "In later posts with others, the above point matures ..." Actually, in our examination of the use of 'sate' in the Sahidic...
... Matthew." I assume it is a modern translation, what they call a retroversion, intended to show what Matthew would have looked like in Hebrew. No Semitic...
Part 1 of this case study (Post #8374) describes responses by a Methodist Sunday School class to five questions on sayings they most liked, disliked, or found...
Paul, I find your thread extremely fascinating and I look forward to more installments. I think it's a very interesting idea, presenting GThom to practicing...
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