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Did you solve John T's by accident then? No, I investigated the famous but poorly documented Flammarion Engraving about 5 years ago; it was part of my research ... and obviously, it's iconic in my lifetime, after the Print Mint's 1970 popularization. I have lots of those old underground comix (befo...

In slightly related news, congrats on the avatar exploration (bis) Hahaha, I honestly hadn't noted that! (Obviously: I've seen the film. In fact, I had a delightful encounter with Graham Chapman once.) No, I merely sensed you were 'requesting a shrubbery' - my mind was working at unconscious levels...

The soldiers put clothing on him. The Garment of Shame ? 'Somebody told me, you had a boyfriend ...' “A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, he fled naked, leaving his garment behind” (Mark 14:51–52). Has anyone here read this odd book, to recom...

Translations can be mindlessly generic (typical) or delve deeper into the metaphysical meanings (rarely). Admitting my own status as a rank amateur, I find the academic standard desperately wanting clarity. Heracleon, Fragments from his Commentary on the Gospel of John , Fragment 20 on John 4:21: &q...

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John T is Anti-Papist & a Conspiracy Theorist.

Bircher, perhaps?

mlinssen wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 11:44 am .. the usual rebuttal from the bankrupt ruins of Churchian academic

All that? No, off topic. wiki says "It may have been written in Greek between 140 and 180 AD" but I don't know any scholar who claims it was originally composed in Coptic. That's not logical, on the face of of it: Valentinus wouldn't compose in that language, his school wasn't 'Coptic', Co...

Where did you get your source for the gospel of Truth? At the LINK I provided. Here is another; Coptic sometimes garbles in some browsers. See Geoffrey S. Smith, Valentinian Christianity. Texts and Translations [2020], pp.130-1 : ⲡⲉⲩⲁⲅⲅⲉⲗⲓⲟⲛ ⲛ̅ⲧⲙⲏⲉ ⲟⲩⲧⲉⲗⲏⲗ ⲡⲉ 32 ⲛ̅ⲛⲉⲉⲓ ⲛ̅ⲧⲁϩϫⲓ ⲡⲓϩⲙⲁⲧ ⲁⲃⲁⲗ ϩⲓ̈ⲧⲟⲟⲧϥ̅...