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mountainman · 10-20-2009, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Clivedurdle

Maybe we are looking at great literature and stories.

I think that the new testament apocrypha as a genre represent a greater literature that the new testament canon. The NT apocrypha appear to be an extention of the Second Sophistic - the great Greek revival of literature and stories.

On the other hand, the NT canon must be classified as a different type of sophistic, which some have called "The Third Sophistic". Literature raised to the authority of a "Holy Writ". God's solemn gravitas word. Inspired literature. The authorship of divinity and inspired authors, not just man.

mountainman · 10-21-2009, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Clivedurdle

Are we looking at in the Gospels a Greek Jewish series of documents, possibly with many allusions to Greek stories and thinking that have been missed?

Logos, 153, cynic morality, dancing to pipes......

How many more are actually Greek referents?

There appears to be a great deal of integration in he NHC 2.6 text The Exegesis on the Soul which commences ....

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Wise men of old gave the soul a feminine name. Indeed she is female in her nature as well. She even has her womb.

In this text the sayings of the LXX, and the sayings of Jesus and the sayings of Paul are completed by a trinity of citations from Homers "Odyssey".

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