Comments on: Gospel of Judas on my doorstep http://patmccullough.com/2007/07/13/gospel-of-judas-on-my-doorstep/ a blog exploring Christian origins, biblical studies, social/cultural history, method, education and the journey through academia Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:53:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Alan & Beth Claassen Thrush http://patmccullough.com/2007/07/13/gospel-of-judas-on-my-doorstep/comment-page-1/#comment-342 Alan & Beth Claassen Thrush Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:11:00 +0000 http://pgmccullough.wordpress.com/2007/07/13/gospel-of-judas-on-my-doorstep/#comment-342 Free books are always worth it, no matter what the language. <br/><br/>Hope your summer is going well.<br/><br/>Alan Free books are always worth it, no matter what the language.

Hope your summer is going well.

Alan

]]> By: Judy Redman http://patmccullough.com/2007/07/13/gospel-of-judas-on-my-doorstep/comment-page-1/#comment-341 Judy Redman Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:21:00 +0000 http://pgmccullough.wordpress.com/2007/07/13/gospel-of-judas-on-my-doorstep/#comment-341 Jim says:<br/><br/><i>How hard can Coptic be? It's got an alphabet!</i> <br/><br/>Well, yes, but it also has a grammatical system that is very different from English, French, German, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Latin, Russian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Malay and, as far as I can tell, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. I'm not suggesting it's outrageously difficult, just that most people find it very different from anything they've ever learned before and it takes a while to get your head around it. Lambdin, currently considered <b>the</b> text book for learning Coptic, doesn't actually teach you a verb as such until chapter 7, but you are able to make sentences from chapter 1. You can say things as complicated as <i>What is the darkness which is upon the city?</i> without using a Coptic verb.<br/><br/>Of course, Pat, you could always send it on to me. I can already read Coptic. :-) Jim says:

How hard can Coptic be? It’s got an alphabet!

Well, yes, but it also has a grammatical system that is very different from English, French, German, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Latin, Russian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Malay and, as far as I can tell, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. I’m not suggesting it’s outrageously difficult, just that most people find it very different from anything they’ve ever learned before and it takes a while to get your head around it. Lambdin, currently considered the text book for learning Coptic, doesn’t actually teach you a verb as such until chapter 7, but you are able to make sentences from chapter 1. You can say things as complicated as What is the darkness which is upon the city? without using a Coptic verb.

Of course, Pat, you could always send it on to me. I can already read Coptic. :-)

]]> By: Jim Getz http://patmccullough.com/2007/07/13/gospel-of-judas-on-my-doorstep/comment-page-1/#comment-340 Jim Getz Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:52:00 +0000 http://pgmccullough.wordpress.com/2007/07/13/gospel-of-judas-on-my-doorstep/#comment-340 How hard can Coptic be? It's got an alphabet! How hard can Coptic be? It’s got an alphabet!

]]> By: April DeConick http://patmccullough.com/2007/07/13/gospel-of-judas-on-my-doorstep/comment-page-1/#comment-339 April DeConick Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:39:00 +0000 http://pgmccullough.wordpress.com/2007/07/13/gospel-of-judas-on-my-doorstep/#comment-339 Patrick,<br/><br/>Glad you got the book. The texts in it are amazing. They give us insight into what was going on in the second century. The copy of the 1 Apocalypse of James is beautiful, much fuller than the NH version. I think that it is probably a Valentinian text, while the Gospel of Judas is a Sethian one. <br/><br/>April Patrick,

Glad you got the book. The texts in it are amazing. They give us insight into what was going on in the second century. The copy of the 1 Apocalypse of James is beautiful, much fuller than the NH version. I think that it is probably a Valentinian text, while the Gospel of Judas is a Sethian one.

April

]]> By: Matt http://patmccullough.com/2007/07/13/gospel-of-judas-on-my-doorstep/comment-page-1/#comment-338 Matt Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:09:00 +0000 http://pgmccullough.wordpress.com/2007/07/13/gospel-of-judas-on-my-doorstep/#comment-338 You should rip the pages out and paste them into your NRSV. Then you'll have all five canonical gospels You should rip the pages out and paste them into your NRSV. Then you’ll have all five canonical gospels

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