Recent content by Adrian Mole

Well, how about 'God' as the word for the 'Three combined' and 'manifestation' (of God) for each, individually? Let me explain my thinking: The fullness of the nature and form of God is utterly beyond human understanding and comprehension - and those who try to explain, justify, or criticise...

For sure - most of 'Eastern Christendom' (Syria, E. Turkey, Arabia, and even India) would most likely have used translations of the NT into Syriac (which, when spoken, is a dialect of Aramaic, though the written script is more like 'proto'-Arabic). The oldest extant MSS of the NT Peshitta date...

Yeah - for sure, the more I work with a particular language, the more 'tricks' I pick up (doing this with Coptic, just now) ... but that will never make me in any way fluent in the language. Maybe a bored 'scholar' of Ethiopic tongues will pass by this thread and offer their help. ;) (But...

Does anyone here read or understand Ethiopic (ancient or modern)? I have a PDF of Thomas Pell Platt's 1834 text for the Didascalia and I am wondering if my attempt to digitize it (into Unicode text) is worthwhile. The image-to-text software I use is (surprisingly) good with this text but there...

So, is it time to open up a thread about updating the Interfaith collection of 'Christian' apocrypha? I'm loathe to start it myself (yet) because I'm still working to get many/most of the books listed in the existing collection somehow, somewhere, in my table. I've added a lot of 'placeholder'...

5786 - the second set of 4 digits (not in order). Add to that, 3214 (the first set of 4, also not in order), you get 9000. What's the significance?

Well, I can't claim to be everyone but I am someone. And I'm here! (Wherever 'here' is!) שנה טובה

Not really - at first, I was with the "Modern Forgery" school-of-thought but, having just written up a parallel version, I'm now not so sure. Perhaps the early Church Fathers misunderstood the significance of the boy wearing nothing but a loincloth (which was the accepted dress for baptism) and...

Aaah! 20 years ago ... when I still had a future: 😄

Your second-last post (the one in which you talk of Melchizedek) just about sums up the 'orthodox' Christian view about Judaism. But the whole issue of 'who was (is) Jesus' from a Jewish perspective is very complex. First, before going into anything, I shall quote one of my favourite sayings of...

Actually, the three (not two) books of Meqabyan in the Ethiopic Orthodox Tawahedo canon are nothing to do with the Books of Maccabees in the LXX or the Catholic Deuterocanon. They are completely independent histories of 'the world'. They are sometimes (often) called "Ethiopic Maccabees" but that...

But Brian (I hope it's OK to drop your 'prefix') - we really need to work on your collection. I'm not saying this in any judgemental way, or as a competitor, but as a (potential) friend. From what I have seen (and I haven't thoroughly read your entire content!), you have, essentially...

As a follow-up, I noticed that you have included the (Pseudo-) Sibylline Oracles among the Christian Apocrypha - your choice, of course, but this work is generally included among the 'OT' pseudepigrapha (a similar argument can be made for the "Odes of Solomon," which although are seemingly OT...

Hi, I just noticed that you have already given the home page for your Christian Apocrypha a very decent makeover - nice job! When I was browsing, I came across the "Secret Gospel of Mark" (I had heard about it, before, but have so far disregarded it in my collection). But your notes have made...

Hi again, Thomas! First, I just noticed that iBrian has updated the home page for his 'Christian Apocrypha' collection ... a nice re-formatting job. Then, when I was browsing, I came across the "Secret Gospel of Mark." Now, in his version, iBrian has a great deal of introductory material but...