Christian Texts and History • Re: I'll be reading the Gospels of Thomas, Philip and Truth for the rest of my life.

You seem so keen to sell them to someone interested in the early Christian canon on the D$$. Disclaimer: because of their longtime pushing of the Essene Community fraud, if the forum allows users to have a signature: mine will be "BDS the DSS".

Isn't there a real danger that the texts you're not studying could be closer to what you're interested in?

None whatsoever. I read what I was interested in the D$$ over a generation ago, back when I fell for their fraud, except for the Habakkuk pesher and that didn't take very long (it's < 200 lines). There are 2 videos on YewTube by Doug del Tondo where he reviews the Habukkuk Pesher and Eisenman's theories, although I remain not convinced:

• 20230825@Dead_Sea_Scrolls_prove_Paul_rejected_by_12_James_Ep_1
• 20230826@Dead_Sea_Scrolls_prove_Paul_rejected_by_12_James_-_Christian_Ebion_Proven_from_DSS_Texts._Ep_2.

In contrast, I'll be reading, and teaching, the Gospels of Thomas, Philip and Truth from the NHL for the rest of my life.

Statistics: Posted by ebion — Fri Feb 02, 2024 6:36 am

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