Hi Paul- I appreciate the research you've done on the Greek term, but I'm having a lot of trouble following your reasoning. I guess you're assuming that Mark...
To all- Somewhat surprisingly, the month just ended has been not only the best month this year, but also the best November on record for our list, in terms of...
Excellent work, Mike! I'm delighted to see your commitment to reinvigorating the e-lists is paying off! As you know, I have also been working on a project that...
THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS AND SHEM TOB’S HEBREW MATTHEW In this post and per haps one or two subsequent posts, I would like to review what George Howard (HEBREW...
Please change "Hebrew Thomas," near the end of the third paragraph, to "Hebrew Matthew." Thanks. --Don "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of...
A statistical technique, "Fuzzy K-Means Clustering," identifies six sayings clusters in GTh, including one which resembles about two-thirds of DeConick's...
... twenty-two agreements between unique GTh readings and passages in Hebrew Matthew. Hi Don, Very interesting! William L. Peterson's critique of Howard's work...
Hi Paul, ... The kindest thing I can say about Petersen's "critique" is that it is not worthy of him. It might have been better if he had at least read...
Hi Paul, I've been wanting to give you some feedback on this note, but I'm afraid it's very little, because mostly I don't understand it. The crucial step -...
Hi Mike and Paul, Just adding my two bits worth. I'd like to put in a good word for the SKP variable that you questioned, Mike. Twenty years ago, when I did my...
Hi Mike, Thanks for your interest. I need to include an example of two-dimensional clustering when I submit the file on this. Much easier to visualize! I will...
... that in the interest of fairness you should also cite Howard's esponse: http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/vol04/Howard1999.html You are right, Don. This will...
Hi Paul, ... Well, we aren't really tracing them back to Thomas, necessarily, as far as Hebrew Matthew is concerned. Hopefully I'll be able to post a lot more...
This little story might come under the heading of "Secret Tales of the Internet". Seems that last Friday, I was perusing Mark Goodacre's blog and ran across...
Hi Mike and Don, Thanks for your comments. I have sent the completed file on this for upload, so that should clarify some things. The tutorial has an example...
Hi Paul, Why do you care whether a catchword is a loanword? Loanwords constitute a substantial percentage of any Coptic text (that's part of what makes it...
... constitute a substantial percentage of any Coptic text (that's part of what makes it Coptic). I must confess that I don't understand why you have included...
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Some followup to yesterday's note of this title: 1. After writing the note, I decided to leave a comment on Phil Harland's blog, mostly to see if he would...
Hi all, Sorry I haven't been able to complete the post that I promised. My wife and I have both been down with an intestinal virus, first her and now me, so I...
Does the wording of Greek L.36, which agrees in part with GMt6.28 in the original Codex Sinaiticus, prove that a written Greek Pre-Q text existed? That is what...
... Didn't you already do this, in response to my asking you very much what Don did, about the LWD variable? As I recall, you said that two sayings dropped out...
... (NRSV) ... neither ... of ... believes "not ... Hi Paul, While reading your post I was wondering whether you were aware of Gundry's reply (published in New...
Hi all, ... [Mike:] ... [Paul:] ... [Don:] The introduction of catchwords at a later stage is unlikely because: 1) Catchwords are widely (I may as well say...
Hi Don - You wrote that "Catchwords are, for the most part, not language-dependent ..." You may be right, but if so, how do you account for the fact that ...
Hi Richard, I did look over the Google Books preview of his response, "Spinning the Lilies and Unraveling the Ravens: An Alternative Reading of Q12:22b-31 and...
Hi Mike, ... I already did account for it, in a series of posts in September (Thomas and Tatian Revisited), which you were kind enough to gather together and...
Hi Don, Thinking out loud on a bunch of connected issues: As I understand it, you believe that "Catchwords are, for the most part, not language-dependent..."...
... Did ... that ... Paul, In Gundry's 2002 paper (New Testament Studies, 48, pp. 159-180) Gundry argues that Q12:22b-31 reads well as an original unity and ...
Good morning, Mike, I'm feeling a lot better today, so hopefully will be able to explain things well enough to stand up to your devil's-advocate role. Please...