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Mandaeans

These Iraqi immigrants revere John the Baptist, but they're not Christians

Not all recent immigrants from the Middle East are Muslims. Iraqis who practice the Mandaean religion have settled in and around Worcester,

How and Why the Mandaeans Embraced John the Baptist

The Mandaeans live on the banks of the Tigris [see Ancient Whither for an update since Iraq war]. They must live near running water where th

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For B.P.

Most of us who work in what we academics call Christian Origins hold to the Two Source theory of Synoptic Gospel origins. That is, Mark was

The Sayings Gospel Q on Early Christian Writings: the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, and Church Fathers: information and translations o

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The Transmigration of Timothy Archer I'm reading the excellent Philip K Dick's last completed novel; I loved Valis, and Tim Archer…

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Introduction to Luke

The Book of Luke

The Gospel of Luke is easily the most detailed of the 4 Gospels, having been written by someone charged with chronicling the life of Jesus, rather than recounting their own experiences.  Traditionally, Luke is thought to be a doctor, based on comments made by Paul in Colossians 4, and was a well-educated Greek.  This book, along with its companion, the book of Acts, were both…

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[wokawokarichard]

The Q Source related to the gospels is an interesting subject. It is a collection of teachings of Christ that you find in multiple gospels. There is no narrative of birth nor resurrection. And I think this does something very unique and wonderful for our understanding of faith.

Mainly, I don't know that it's important to have the resurrection narrative. I mean, it think problematises a great many things in the tradition. Primarily, I believe, it would allow to focus less on actual 'belief' and more on practice. Perhaps we should incorporate actual actions of Christ in the Q (if something like this existed), but with just a collection of teachings, I think it allows Christ to be more human - more closely related to us. Without the resurrection narrative, all we have is an insurrectionist who galavants around actively speaking out against the oppressive regime and then being murdered because of it. We can then build our own resurrection. We can find the risen Christ every time we remember one who was murdered at the hands of an oppressive system. We can see an empty tomb whenever we seek out injustice. We can hear the "Peace be with you" during Ferguson protests.

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The Q source (also Q document, Q Gospel, Q Sayings Gospel, or Q from German: Quelle, meaning "source") is a hypothetical written collection of sayings (logia) of Jesus defined as the "common" material found in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke but not in their other written source, the Gospel of Mark. According to this hypothesis, this ancient text was based on the Oral Tradition of the Early Church. 

Along with Markan priority, Q was hypothesized by 1900, and it is one of the foundations of most modern gospel scholarship. B. H. Streeter formulated a widely accepted view of Q: that it was a written document (not an oral tradition) composed in Greek; that almost all of its contents appear in Matthew, in Luke, or in both; and that Luke more often preserves the original order of the text than Matthew. In the two-source hypothesis, Matthew and Luke both used Mark and Q as sources. Some scholars have postulated that Q is actually a plurality of sources, some written and some oral. Others have attempted to determine the stages in which Q was composed. 

The existence of Q has been questioned. The omission of what should have been a highly treasured dominical document from all the early Church catalogs, and from mention by the fathers of the early Church, might be seen as a great conundrum of modern Biblical scholarship. However, copying Q might have been seen as unnecessary as it was preserved in the gospels that were considered canonical. Hence, it was preferable to copy Gospels of Matthew and Luke, where the sayings of Jesus from Q were rephrased to avoid misunderstandings, and to fit their own situations and their understanding of what Jesus had really meant. Despite challenges, the two source hypothesis retains wide support.

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Hermetic Binge #1

When I'm lost on the internet for hours, interesting topics just lead to more interesting topics, names, theories, and ideas until suddenly I'm face-to-face with an endless wall of truncated Wikipedia titles in browser tabs squeezing together desperately to fit their 1920-pixel corral. It looks like this: [Symbolic i...] [Rhetoric - ...] [Illocutiona...] [Continenta...] [Historicis...] [Kant and t...] [Neuro-ling...] [General se...] [George Lak...] [Framing (s...] [Bodhisattv...] [Causality -...] [Reality tun...] [Direct and ...] [Idealism - ...] [Philosophy...] [Uncertaint...] [Dualism - ...]

I decided to record my sudden bursts of research curiosity here as a list of links. It will be interesting to look back on these and track which topics gradually piled on top of one another to shape my weltanschauung. Feel free to study along with me.

Nag Hammadi library

Gospel of Thomas

'Q Source' or 'Q Document'

Emanationism

Aeon

Aeon (Gnosticism)

Hermetic Qabalah