Hi Jack, Many thanks for your response. Although your angle of approach is different from mine, you raise some questions that may be in the minds of others as...
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Jack Kilmon
jkilmon_2000
Jan 7, 2010 4:24 am
This is fascinating, Mike. It never occurred to me that some of the "hidden" meanings would be numerological. Since the prologue is a Coptic translation of...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Jan 5, 2010 8:11 pm
My informal research into the state of chiastic studies indicates that nobody knows anything at all about the type of chiasmus present in the Prologue of...
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Jeff
jeffysebaert
Jan 5, 2010 5:57 pm
Happy 2010 to all, I want to share some findings I have done recently on Gthom and its relations with Paul and John. I like to think that the synoptic gospels...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Jan 3, 2010 7:07 pm
Although December was a typically slow month (25 messages), we did well for the year, with a total of 520. For the last seven years, the totals are as follows:...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Jan 1, 2010 4:55 am
Thanks for your kind words, Maurice. Since it's almost the New Year, though, and so as to add a little meat to this message, I'll tell you that I hope to make...
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Maurice Cormier
jmgcormier
Dec 31, 2009 11:28 pm
Hello and year end holiday greetings to you also, Mike, and to all of the active members of the group as well ... kudos especially for all of your personal...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Dec 31, 2009 7:21 pm
All's quiet on the b-blog front in this dead week between Christmas and New Year's that winds up the two-month- long holiday season here in the states. In...
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Maurice
jmgcormier
Dec 18, 2009 3:17 am
... "She missed, however, pointing out that there is yet a ... Greetings, Rick …. … may I say that I thoroughly enjoyed your closing reflexion on April...
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Bob Schacht
r_schacht
Dec 17, 2009 10:34 pm
... What this ignores is the way academia operates, in my experience. Her observations on academia apply fairly well to tenured professors, but not so well to...
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Rick Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Dec 17, 2009 6:01 pm
DeConick's BAR article makes some important observations, not the least of which is that manuscripts such at the Gospel of Thomas are relegated to second or...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Dec 17, 2009 3:16 pm
April DeConick has an article in Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) 36:01 (Jan/Feb 2010). The title is "Biblical Views: What's Up with the Gospel of Thomas?."...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Dec 15, 2009 7:05 am
I've just finished reading Dan Brown's new book, _The Lost Symbol_. No, I didn't buy it; one of my wife's friends lent it to me. Suffice to say that you'll...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Dec 15, 2009 5:09 am
Came across a surprise blog entry today. Chris S. had posted the third and final part of his interview with Patterson, and one of the comments was a reference...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Dec 11, 2009 7:10 am
Having just finished a series of three postings on April DeConick's views (_Orality, the "Kernel", Accretions, and Dating Thomas_), Chris Skinner has now...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Dec 8, 2009 10:28 pm
To Tim, Ian, et al: I've been mulling over (some would say obsessing about) this probability thing for five days now, since Ian first posted. Every time I...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Dec 8, 2009 5:04 am
... Hi Tim, and thanks for your thoughtful message. As it happens, I was intending to write in tonight to correct a little something, and your note provides a...
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tim.ricchuiti
Dec 8, 2009 3:34 am
I know this conversation is a few days old at this point, but because I'm a math nerd, I feel like I have to chime in. The calculation for the probability that...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Dec 6, 2009 6:48 am
Hi again Ian, It's early morning here (about 1:30 am and probably an hour later before I finish this note), but I don't get much chance to write during the...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Dec 5, 2009 8:07 am
Ian, I wanted to let you know that I'm mulling over the meaning and implications of our two methods of calculation. I started writing a response, but wasn't...
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Ian Brown
ianbrown6796
Dec 4, 2009 9:26 pm
Mike, I think it is you now who are playing on the conservative side. For in your math you presume an intentional placement of the first logion which then...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Dec 4, 2009 5:57 pm
Hi again Ian, After sending off my previous note, an even more radical criticism of the random-probability algorithm occurred to me. Let's suppose that L7 and...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Dec 4, 2009 5:26 pm
... Hi Ian, In the first place, I'm not sure why you say 'if', since the two sayings are in fact eighth from the beginning and end, respectively. Secondly, the...
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Ian Brown
ianbrown6796
Dec 4, 2009 5:00 am
Mike, Basically what I did was cast a reasonably large net, thus I don't assume perfect parallels (although they appear to exist in this case), rather I wanted...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Dec 4, 2009 4:45 am
... Hi Sam, I can't tell you how many times this has happened to me. ... Sure is. Hopefully, others here and elsewhere will help us out by poking and prodding...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Dec 4, 2009 4:35 am
... Hi Ian, The way I figure it, L107 is eighth from the last (108-114 = 7 sayings). ... Could you explain this calculation, and also the amended calculation ...
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IanB
ianbrown6796
Dec 3, 2009 11:20 pm
Hi all, I have been spending a lot of time lately examining the idea that Thomas is a unified document (as opposed to a randomly arranged collection of Jesus...
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CJED5@...
jsamuelchandler
Dec 3, 2009 11:08 pm
In a message dated 03/12/2009 20:58:40 GMT Standard Time, mwgrondin@... writes: Once we know of such an inherent weakness in our reasoning, what ...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Dec 3, 2009 8:58 pm
Ran across the title term yesterday, and it's a good one to keep in mind. We are naturally biased toward our own theories, and, being so, we have a natural...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Dec 3, 2009 6:41 am
In my October report, I had expressed the hope that we would get 54 messages in November, and, surprisingly, that's exactly what happened! That brings the...
