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The translation used is that of the late Thomas Paterson Brown: I love his gospels of Phillip and Thomas and was trying to contact him. without any luck. http://gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl_thomas.htm The Metalogos Index. The creator of this site, Dr. Thomas Paterson Brown, died in 2012; the materials he...

A fragment of Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus or Vaticanus the size of a postage stamp may be sufficient for a dozen modern C14 tests farmed out to scientists in multiple radiocarbon labs. What C14 did for the "Shroud" it can also do for Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus and Vaticanus. It's Sinaiticus th...

If one starts with an assumptiom such as NT scripture was basically assembled by Constantine That would be called a false assumption; there's no assembly or discussion of canon at a council of Constantine's. He merely agreed to foot the bill for 50 copies of what others thought was the best canon a...

I don't want to open a big can of translation worms, but I want to point our that the Aramaic interpretation of Sheul/Sheol is softer than how the equivalent Greek word is usually translated in the KJV: Hell. I'll just quote this post from the Assyrian Forums and leave it at that: I don't want to ap...

I do agree that Jesus' "brother" continued his work after Jesus' untimely death, but I do not buy the legendary depiction of the trial and execution of "James the Just" relayed by Hegesippus, in a work preserved only here as a fragment in a citation by Eusebius. It is too fabulo...

DCHindley wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:54 am The 1st one may have been sent in error, or I hit "quote" rather than "edit."

No problem - I think you can delete, but only within a short timeframe. Makes sense.

PS: I think it is a timeout - I couldn't delete one after a while even through it was last in the thread.

This isn't a KJV Howler, but it's a KJV Blooper: Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. (Acts 2:24 [KJV]) " loosed the pains of death" makes NO sense. Shamasha Paul Younan explains : Now - if you're sitting the...

mlinssen wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:48 am The translation used is that of the late Thomas Paterson Brown:

you say "the late Thomas Paterson Brown"

What info do you have on him, or his passing?

I love his gospels of Phillip and Thomas and was trying to contact him. without any luck.

It would have the same value as your childish fabrication about "terrible yellow". I guess the scholars at academic institutions overestimate the gullibility of the general public to swallow scholarly exhibits. Anyway, I will probably never stop with my preaching until the day I die. Acad...

In my list of English translations of the PeshittA I did not mention the well known Lamsa version. I have my own misgivings about it, but I found this post by an Armaicist I respect : Once you actually check the Lamsa version against the actual readings as found in the Aramaic text, (you can do this...