22 days ago by April DeConick

In the last week, I have had two people e-mail me and ask me to further explain my understanding of the Gospel of Judas as a parody. Given that there are two people interested, I thought maybe others might be interested to. When I employ this term I am trying to describe a situation in which the Gno ...

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39 days ago by robhu

Today I attended the Theology for all 'Other gospels' masterclass organised by Tyndale House (one of the Cambridge University theological houses). It was pretty awesome. It was great to meet up with David (a friend from church who is doing an English PhD at Cambridge), meet and talk to Christian sch ...

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40 days ago by Benjamin

Sextus: (4 BCE - 65-CE ?) A first century Greek Pythagorean philosopher. A collection of his sayings are contained in the Nag Hammadi Lib. Tractate 1 Codex XII. Silvanus: Name of main character in the “ Teachings of Silvanus,” Tractate 4, Codex VII . of the Nag Hammadi Lib., anti-Pagan work not thou ...

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64 days ago by Charles

Justin Buzzard has highlighted the following quote taken from David Wells' The Courage to Be Protestant . "...how likely is it, outside of the intervention of God through the Holy Spirit, that we will identify our needs as those arising from our rebellion against God? No, the product we will seek na ...

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70 days ago by April DeConick

I just heard today that Madeleine Scopello's book which contains the proceedings from the 2006 International conference on the Gospel of Judas held in Paris has been published. It is a Brill volume, so pricey and probably a library loan book for most of us, but it is very important publication becau ...

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72 days ago by Fisher King

by Mel Mathews Whether we know it, or not, whether we care to or are able to admit it, every human being is influenced by psychological ‘complexes’. In The Complex: Path of Transformation from Archetype to Ego, Erel Shalit explains the difference between an ‘autonomous complex’ and an integrated com ...

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77 days ago by April DeConick

David H. brought to my attention a piece written by Helmut Koester in the most recent issue of BAR: "BAR most loved and most reviled" pp. 10 and 12 September/October vol 34/5 2008. It is unfortunate that the BAR website does not link up to this article since it is written by a scholar whose voice ha ...

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92 days ago by April DeConick

Upon returning from vacation this morning, I found a package on my desk. I opened it and found inside a real surprise. My book has been translated into Dutch by W.G. Hurkmans. Here is the cover. The same artwork was maintained which I like.

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107 days ago by Zondervan

The following post, somewhat expanded, also appears on Darrell Bock’s blog. Lund University, Sweden Just finished the SNTS meetings in Lund, Sweden, a beautiful city in Southern Sweden, near Malmö, the country's third largest city. The university has been here since 1666. The meetings were a great t ...

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109 days ago by Mary Kitt-Neel

This morning, Soulmate and I were listening to a series of lectures about the recently dissected Gospel of Judas, and we made a definitive conclusion: There are two kinds of people in the world - people who think there are two kinds of people in the world, and everybody else. And we wondered what we ...

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