Thursday, August 4, 2011
Tony Burke Finds a Parallel to Mark Goodacre's Explanation of the Talking Cross in the Gospel of Peter
Mark Goodacre is a wonderful scholar who has had a flash of genius recently - attributing the puzzling reference to the 'talking cross' in Gospel of Peter to a misunderstanding of a nomen sacrum. In any event, the internet being the wonderful place that it is has allowed a number of other great thinkers to come up with parallel examples of such corruptions. Tony Burke has come up with one. Both posts are well worth reading.
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dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."