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Old 12-18-2007, 03:03 PM   #11
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Default Asclepius - the popular healer in antiquity

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1. We've gone through this before. The Nomina Sacra are ordinarily translated as "Jesus."
But with what justification?

I mean it's uncontroversial that there was some differences in usage between "Chrestus" and "Christos" - if an overly-glib conventionalism is covering over some potentially interesting variations in early Christian usage - moreover, obscuring potential sources of support for an AJ/HJ - inquiring minds want to know.

Doesn't the "Letter to Doodah" (forget the name) in the NHC mention something about "Healer" (memory very vague, thinking of the Barnstone edition where he sometimes gives possible variant translations)?

Hi gurugeorge,

Have a brief look through that article I referenced.
He claims to be a Coptic translator who has worked
with the raw materials, and he basically says that
the name of "Jesus" is not used in the coptic, only
the code/aqbbreviation "J_S" where the underscore
is really above the J and the S.

This is the same situation as our earliest codices of
the NT literature (in Greek).

The author's statement was that this code "JS" in the
coptic can be translated as an abbreviation for the
term "Healer" (ie: instead of Jesus).

I find this quite relevant to fourth century politics.
The temples of the Healer Asclepius were hit the
hardest by Constantine 324/325 CE, and the texts
of other authors "Apollonius" were targeted for their
proper refutation by Eusebius.

The Old Healer was OUT.
The new Healer was IN.

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