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The forum has become so crazy in recent years where we are essentially arguing things that have no relationship whatsoever to texts, evidence or ancient witnesses? Is this a sign of the general decline of civilization or is it some 'step forward' that I am not entirely aware of yet? Please give me ...

QUESTION (1): Are the existence of the two ligatures deliberate? What is the explanation for the two separate ligatures IS and IHS - both translated as Jesus - in the Gospel of Thomas? What was the intention (if any) of the author of Thomas to use two separate ligatures for Jesus? Why bother if IS ...

Why bother if IS = IHS and Jesus is Jesus? Was it simply a scribal error. These things happen in almost all manuscripts . ... I hope to have explained the situation accurately. In the interim this is open for any answers to these two questions, or ideas, or comments, or criticism, or more questions...

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I have made some changes to the introduction now in order to increase the excitement even further

Hope that helps

Screenshot_20220807-204010_ReadEra Premium.jpg Screenshot_20220807-204021_ReadEra Premium.jpg Line 24 contains the word, logion 6 in Philip. Not a comment, no footnote, no nothing: now why would Lundhaug not spend ANY attention to the fact that this is the only text in the world that has both XRHST...

there is only One Chrestos who suffers from iotacism. Iotacism doesn't apply because both words always existed simultaneously. And I'm not talking about Philip, I am talking about Greek as a language and likely even Coptic as a language as well Iotacism and Chrestianity or Christianity is a no go, ...

You may have missed my late edits: 1) This could not have happened without your transcription of the ligatures. Thanks for this. That all other scholars have neglected to identify what the Coptic texts actually say is negligence. 2) ETA: I am still struggling with the IS and IHS in Thomas. You ment...

The thing is, thanks for the analysis - it is valuable and helpful. Like Thomas, all Philip translations are rubbish and we can't start to read it until mine is ready. And whatever I do in the meantime is highly speculative, please do keep that in mind Do you have an ETA for Philip? But until then,...

"And I think that the early church fathers knew that to be true [ie. that 'Jesus' or the forerunner to Jesus was the Old Testament [concept], second power of God]. The evidence from their writings suggested it was true ." (From the vid of course, not your own statement, Mac) A real apolog...

I come bearing more questions. I probably should have bookmarked the thread but I didn’t, alas, but I was reading a thread here recently where the topic of dating Justin Martyrs writings came up and it was the first time I had seen anyone suggest (significantly, let alone any) later dates for his w...