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Pastimes : History's effect on Religion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (292)	8/9/2005 10:53:28 AM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 520

I'm surprised that you challenged the statement by Hayes that; "For example, the uninitiated would never know that the so-called Gospel of Thomas is a 4C forgery, with antecedents in a 2C forgery." Your own quoted source reveals just that "The manuscripts bearing the Greek fragments of the Gospel of Thomas have been dated to about 200, and the manuscript of the Coptic version to about 340. Although the Coptic version is not quite identical to any of the Greek fragments, it is believed that the Coptic version was translated from a prior Greek version." en.wikipedia.org Dating manuscripts is something of a black art. Unless you have a date written on the material itself then it becomes a matter of selective and largely subjective criteria. The Gospels and the Epistles that make up the New Testament as we have it today have direct historical lineage that can be traced back to the Apostles themselves.