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Well, there is certainly precedence for a holy man and God ignoring someone's plea for forgiveness (Jer. 37:3: "Please pray to the Lord our God for us!"), and for the reasons I've given, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to suppose that Josephus' Simon and Acts' Simon are the same pe...

If Marcion's "originality" depends on his connection with Simon (via Philip), from my point of view it looks like a bad connection, since both Peter and Josephus condemn him. If. If you assume that Simon's plea for forgiveness was just ignored by Peter, or by God. If. If you assume that S...

When I look at the image of the character from III 13 with the naked eye, I see what appears to be a slight indentation, if that's the word for it, and I think perhaps AdamKvanta perceives it too. It seems to be preserved in the the early stages of your analysis, both in some of your earlier posts ...

The blue rectangles may be a byproduct of reducing the bitmap image to a jpeg of a size that can be sent by email (the bitmaps are 300+ MB files). Argh. That's a good point. Randy: I have also noticed a grid of dots in the bitmap image that I am unable to see in The Fourth R pdf, which I have also ...

Hi Ken & gang, I made a few animated gifs to better illustrate what I'm talking about when I say we can recover the angle at which the scribe held his nib. I've analyzed these to letters, from our gymnastic example: nib_movie.gif the picture shows the original image of the two letters. The left...

A bit of the oral history of the images: I noticed something disturbing in one of the images Ken sent me---I don't know if this is in your repo or not, Peter. But if you zoom in on the letters you will notice that image has been doctored such that there is an array of light blue rectangles over the...

Can you give a source for Origen believing that Mark used Matthew please ? I can't :-( I was relying on something I read in a wiki article about the synoptic problem, but when I double-checked the source they were using (Eusebius's church history) it didn't say that at all. -Wiki got it wrong....I'...

I cannot really follow what you're doing, particularly in steps 3 and 4. Sorry about that....I forget sometime that I'm talking to humanities people and not engineers, so a piece of shoptalk jargon snuck in... For step #3: recall, the theory behind this is that the blob will be *darkest* at the ver...

Could you run it again with this image? I can certainly wait until tonight to see the results. Wait no longer....feast your eyes upon: ken_hi_res.png Ok, we have both requested blobs (can you tell which is which? Top is the gymnastic example, bottom is the other iota) From left to right we have: 1....

Could you please do the same thing with the higher quality image of the disputed character from III 18? Sure, however, the sample for III 18 you gave in the last post (https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=172091#p172091) was a lower quality image than the one for 1 9. (zoom in, you'll se...