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Blood wrote:

C14 dating requires a relatively large sample to be taken from a collection item and destroyed

Is this correct? I thought only a small sample was necessary. The DSS were C14 dated.

See my link, or short answer without clicking: about 100mg of sample, vs tens of grams using previous techniques

British Library on C14 dating Sinaiticus : Many thanks for your enquiry. Having consulted with colleagues in History & Classics and our Collection Care team, I can confirm that the Library has not previously subjected either manuscript to C14 dating, nor do we have plans to do so. There is broa...

Allegro's Magic Mushrooms

How often is Father used addressing God in jewish works just before, contemporary with, and just after the early christian era? Not so much as in OT descriptions where's he's described as the Father to Israel, but in prayers, liturgical uses, and directly addressed as Father?

It's a literary masterpiece that uses the language of nonsensical grammar to promote the writer's system of orthodox grammar, much as Paul does in his letter to the Colossians wrt to gnostic and orthodox theologies.

To use orthodox Paulinesque apologetics; This was personal testimony and experience so of course its not going to compare to Augustine's other writings

/inquiry

/cue MM

For being a sanctimonious hypocrite, john t is now on ignore

Anything you found interesting other than the traditional Coptic forms seemed not to include "Son of God" and "Christ"?

So literary reworking of a literary reworking is what we would expect if those respective characters were historical people?

So the use of aramaic directly and indirectly in the gospel(s), from a group started in jewish lands, is evidence of a certain historical guy crucified in roughly ad 30 under Pilate?