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Note that the S/L versions explicitly state the form that the Beloved takes in each level. It states that the Beloved had the form of creatures in the firmament when in the firmament; and had the form of creatures in the air when the Beloved descended into the air from the firmament. So where would...

I want to rewind to the narrow form of the argument presented by GakuseiDon in the Bible and Interpretation thread and also upthread . I am going to try to summarize the argument there as: words translated as "in your form" in English appear in AoI 9:13 that Carrier somehow missed this ph...

The text has "descend to the firmament and to that world ." Wouldn't "that world" include the earth? No, I don't read it like that. I think it's just an example of scriptural repetition - like the donkey, even a colt the foal of a donkey. So I read this as saying : Descend to th...

Hi Kapyong, Thanks for taking the time to look through my evaluation. Just on one point: Reading through this confusing document (the AoI), here is what I see : Firstly, in 10.7 we hear the command to Jesus: Go and descend through all the heavens, descend to the firmament and to that world, even to ...

I think you will find the changes already made in the translation of this Asclepius text, and in the Gospel of Judas, reflect the need to leave the term in its classical interpretation as provided by (2). This may not be an error as such - perhaps an inconsistency is the better term. However such s...

AFAIK, "demon" and "daimon"/"daemon" are transliterations of the same Greek word. So "demon" is not an "error in the English translation", as you put it, but a spelling preference. I'm not sure what your concern is there?

Well, I'm not sure the dust has settled on that yet. On the one hand, GakuseiDon has shown that 'in your form' was probably present in the original, but the text is so mangled, it's hard to be sure of anything. So, all-in-all, I've backed off to a stance of 'not sure'. Hi Kapyong, I've just posted ...

In OHJ, Carrier writes on page 41 that "My perspective on this document [Ascension of Isaiah] has been inspired by the analysis in Earl Doherty, Jesus: Neither God nor Man". That's interesting, because Carrier seems to make the same mistake that Doherty made in J:NGNM, as I explained earl...

Probably best at this point that we go over Carrier's reasons for the need to reconstruct an earlier version of the S/L texts, to see how strong they are. Anyone willing to do this? I'm happy to do this, but won't have time to get to it for a few days. (Probably best to be done by someone who suppo...

You're a tool, John T. I've reported your post.