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Maybe a decade ago I noted this: Indeed, even the Papyrology Unit within the University of Oxford, for the 3rd century P.Oxy 3035, renders the term "Chresian" as "Christian". Various reasons for this type of emendation and/or translation are provided, including misspelling by the...

Three points perhaps of interest to the chronology of Marsanes: 1) The Sethians appear to be incorporating some version of Platonism into the biblical creation accounts: For example see: Gnosticism as Platonism: With Special Reference to Marsanes (NHC 10,1) Author(s): Birger A. Pearson Source: The H...

Once more, with feeling: The entire Nag Hammadi Library contains about 200 ligatures / words that get translated with 'Christ'. However, only 2 of those words actually say Xristos . And 35 of them say Xrestos Yet there is not a single word in the entire NHL that says 'Chrest(ian(s))' Only the gospe...

Hi Pete, Looks like you re-did your web pages to make them more compact and also cover all of your many interests. Nice to hear from you again. G'day Dave, No the web pages are just archives of my notes. The page (of 2005) cited about the aether represents about 10 years of discussion in sci.physic...

After almost 10 years I was wondering whether I am still banned on this public discussion forum. And they allowed Apollonius to ask questions; and he asked them of what they thought the cosmos was composed; but they replied: "Of elements." "Are there then four" he asked. "No...