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Re: Stauros/Crux
I think CBD has a reasonably priced one volume edition at $20.00 is
memory serves.
-Larry Swain
Parmly Billings Library
lswain@billings.lib.mt.us
On 30 Jul 1994, STEVE SCHAPER wrote:
>
> In a message dated 07-27-94 David.Wigtil wrote to Steve Schaper:
> D> Please read your early Christian literature! You m_u_s_t look
> D> at documents like the "Epistle of Barnabas" from the early second
> D> century. It clearly and unequivocally equates the symbol named
> D> "tau", which we recognize from the epigraphy of the time as virtually
> D> idendical to our capital "T", with the cross on which Jesus was
> D> killed. It goes even further and makes various theological and
> D> numerological arguments based on the equation of T (tau) with the
> D> cross. Barnabas is in (easy) Greek and easily procurable...hardly an
> D>
> D> obscure text. King Olaf died in the 11th century; I have seen
> D> his gravesite. I have a great deal of concern about your omission of
> D> some basic historical evidence. Please be more cautious in your
> D> proclamations, and heed the warning of Euripides shown below.
>
> I _really_ should have said "I think".
>
> As to Barnabas, I look forward to the Electronic Bible Society getting
> Lightfoot or some other reasonably good production of the sub-Apostolic
> Fathers on CD-ROM. A poor student like me can4t afford the hardcopy volumes,
> alas.
>
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- Re: Stauros/Crux
- From: STEVE SCHAPER <STEVE.SCHAPER@1-100-435-0.cheswicks.toadnet.org>