Showing posts with label Gnostic gospels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gnostic gospels. Show all posts
Sunday, May 21, 2023

Can chatbots provide useful perspective? The Gospel of Mary

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I've spent a few posts laying important groundwork exploring the limitations and biases of the current-generation chatbots. While someti...
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Sunday, July 11, 2021

The Gospel of Judas: Why Barbelo and Yaldabaoth are relevant to that conversation

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End note, moved to the top: My apologies if some of the material in this post is not within the bounds of traditional Christian or Jewish be...
Sunday, April 08, 2018

Geographical References - Gnostic Gospels

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I'm now trying my hand at some basic google maps to plot the geographical references in the Gnostic Gospels. The map below reflects some...
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Sunday, January 07, 2018

Weighing the Alternative Gospels: The Gnostic Gospels

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This post resumes a project that I had set aside and have always intended to continue: an objective, computerized statistical analysis of al...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

Apocryphal gospels as "fan fiction"

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I enjoy fan fiction -- you know, those fan-written stories for things that ended too soon. I've read fan fiction for book series like Ha...
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Sunday, January 30, 2011

In unexpected places

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A Christian might not normally look for inspiration or insight in the Gospel of Philip, one of the non-canonical "lost scripture" ...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Little-known facts about some non-canonical gospels

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This post should wrap up my current series on objectively observable differences between the canonical gospels and the non-canonical gospels...
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Sunday, November 08, 2009

The historical Jesus is Jewish: Gauging a gospel's historical view of Jesus

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It has become increasingly common for skeptics to say that there is no real difference of quality between the canonical gospels -- the ones ...
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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Gnostic Gospels and Canonical Gospels: An Assessment of Jewish Context

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As I mentioned when reviewing the canonical gospels for Jewish background, an obvious thing runs the risk of being overlooked or undervalued...
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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Gospel of Truth (Gnostic): Word Cloud

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able  (4) above  (5) aeons  (5) alone  (14) anything  (7) appeared  (9) became  (5) become  (6) being  (18) belongs  (4) book  ...

Gospel of Thomas (Gnostic?): Word Cloud

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able  (4) against  (9) alive  (4) away  (7) become  (27) being  (14) birds  (4) blessed  (11) body  (5) bought  (4) brothers  (...

Gospel of Mary (Gnostic): Word Cloud

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answered  (8) began  (3) bound  (4) desire  (3) forms  (3) gospel  (3) hear  (4) ignorance  (3) kingdom  (3) lord  (3) man  (3)...

Gospel of Philip (Gnostic): Word Cloud

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ability  (7) able  (29) above  (17) adam  (9) angel  (7) animals  (17) anointed  (12) apostles  (7) appeared  (8) baptism  (8) ...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

The Gospel of Mary: An Assessment of Its Historical Value

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Many of us are familiar with the canonical gospels of the life of Christ, but less so with the non-canonical "lost gospels". The C...
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