This is the first in a series of notes relating to some observations about the physical manuscript in which the Gospel of Thomas is contained. For the most...
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Bob Schacht
r_schacht
Feb 6, 2010 6:01 pm
... Rick, Thanks for these observations. I have one observation in response: [snip] ... This strikes me as extremely odd. I don't know anything about Coptic, ...
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Rick Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Feb 6, 2010 8:45 pm
Hi Bob- ... I ... the ... that? I agree that this is an oddity, but I can't offer any explanation, or even a theory, about what may have happened here. I do...
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Judy Redman
judyr54
Feb 6, 2010 11:29 pm
... I ... the ... that? and Rick responds: I agree that this is an oddity, but I can't offer any explanation, or even a theory, about what may have happened...
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Rick Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Feb 7, 2010 1:42 am
Hi Judy- ... written ... <snip> That's a good point. Not that I have looked carefully at a great number of MSS, but I guess I never really paid that much...
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Judy Redman
judyr54
Feb 7, 2010 2:57 am
Rick says: That having been said, a couple of questions come to mind: First, Page 32 would then seem to qualify as the work of an "experienced" copyist since...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 7, 2010 4:48 am
Hi guys, If I may jump in on a few small factual matters without disrupting your interesting conversation: ... Nope, not according to the preface (p.xv) of the...
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Judy Redman
judyr54
Feb 7, 2010 11:33 am
Always happy to have some facts inserted into the conversation thanks Mike! J I really haven't looked at the facsimiles of GosThom with anything in mind other...
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John Moon
johnmoon37172
Feb 7, 2010 1:08 pm
... Just an observation and a question Considering the emphasis on the Big fish,The largest sheep through out Thomas. Are the Larger scribe b lines more...
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Rick Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Feb 7, 2010 1:35 pm
This is an addendum to my initial remark about line slant on Page 32: ... Since my initial note on this issue, I have devised a way to calculate the trajectory...
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Rick Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Feb 7, 2010 2:28 pm
John Wrote: <snip> ... It seems to me that this is unlikely. The first 8 lines of Page 34 contain pretty much only the last sentence of L 78 ("....Upon them...
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Rick Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Feb 7, 2010 2:37 pm
It just occurred to me that some folks may be totally baffled by the discussion underway because they are not aware (for shame, for shame) of where the MS...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 7, 2010 6:19 pm
Hi John, Like you, I've entertained the thought that there might be something ultra-significant about the 8 lines at the top of page 47 (not 34 - that's a typo...
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Judy Redman
judyr54
Feb 7, 2010 10:03 pm
Rick says: Since my initial note on this issue, I have devised a way to calculate the trajectory of the line slant, or skew (again using a CAD type program)....
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Judy Redman
judyr54
Feb 7, 2010 10:04 pm
Rick wrote in response to John: It seems me infinitely more likely that what we see here is simply the work of a different scriptor, the presence of which is...
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Rick Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Feb 7, 2010 10:44 pm
Note: Since my Organizational Obsessive Disorder has kicked in, I've started a new thread for discussions relating to Page 47. Correspondence posted in the...
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Rick Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Feb 7, 2010 11:09 pm
Judy wrote: <snip> ... been ... variations in the ... the ... I'll save the details for when I send in the note about Page 33, but yes, there is a significant...
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Judy Redman
judyr54
Feb 8, 2010 3:25 am
Rick, If you look at the facsimiles on the web, you will see up the top something that says II,<page number> followed by an arrow that either goes up and down ...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 8, 2010 4:01 am
... Sure thing, Rick. In the Thomas section of Codex II, all the odd-numbered pages have vertical fibers, all the even-numbered pages have horizontal. When the...
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Bob Schacht
r_schacht
Feb 8, 2010 4:59 am
... Mike, Does the codex seem to be a full set of quires (each consisting of 4 folded sheets of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum>vellum or ...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 8, 2010 5:37 am
Hi Bob, I notice that your note includes links to wikipedia articles on 'vellum' and 'parchment'. Was that your own doing or was it generated automatically?...
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Richard Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Feb 8, 2010 1:18 pm
Thanks for this, Judy. The cropped images I am working with on my computer just show the written areas of the MS, so the pagination information wasn't visible....
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Richard Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Feb 8, 2010 1:32 pm
I'm in need of some fact-checking: Somewhere along the line, I seem to recall reading that when scribes were preparing writing material for use, they...
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Bob Schacht
r_schacht
Feb 8, 2010 3:58 pm
... Yes, I was copying from the wikipedia article on a "quire," and specifically from its comment on the ancient (i.e., Middle Ages) usage. ...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 8, 2010 4:23 pm
... I'm curious about the source of your images, Rick. The only online images I'm aware of other than my own are those on Metalogos, which Andrew Bernhard...
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Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Feb 8, 2010 5:09 pm
... My understanding is that papyrus sheets were sold in standard sizes, but (just to complicate the matter) that that standard size wasn't the size of a...
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Richard Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Feb 8, 2010 5:37 pm
Last things first: ... notes under this ... Well, I'm curious too, I certainly didn't put such a thing in the header. My hunch is, however that this labyrinth...
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Bob Schacht
r_schacht
Feb 8, 2010 6:02 pm
... Birth of Christianity, Chapter 9 BTW, I think I erroneously referred to P42 when I meant to refer to P48. P48 is one of the manuscripts that suggests that...
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Jack Kilmon
jkilmon_2000
Feb 8, 2010 6:32 pm
From: Richard Hubbard Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 7:37 AM To: gthomas@yahoogroups.com Subject: [GTh] Papyrus I'm in need of some fact-checking: Somewhere...
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Bob Schacht
r_schacht
Feb 8, 2010 6:58 pm
... What is the current status of understanding about the Qumran "scriptorum"? Bob Schacht Northern Arizona University...
