Muslim Piracy! -- Royse ripped off

Muslims operating outside of Western borders and ignoring copyrights have continued to steal and pilfer every scientific and scholarly literature the West has produced, and promulgate it on the net and everywhere.

Royse's Stolen Book

The trend and tradition of Eastern and Far Eastern countries sacking Western treasures is not new, but is certainly escalating. 

Muslims have recently engaged in full frontal attacks against every brand of Christianity, using Western Christian research and discovery only to mock and ridicule Western religious values and claims.   The new attacks from Muslims and other extremists are unique in the history of Christendom.

Before these people have even hung out a shingle, they have stolen and uploaded scholarly works still very much in copyright, and the result is that sales of scholarly books simply stagnate, as Muslims give it away free. 

Here is a perfect example of this outrageous theft.  Remember this is not even for personal use, or to promote the sale of Western authors, but to completely sabotage their efforts by robbing them of legitimate benefit from their hard work.

Now Royse's opus 1000 page book, reasonably priced at under $100 (and in these small markets thats a miracle in itself) has been put on the internet by Muslim pirates, bent on undermining Christianity at all costs and by all methods, regardless of their dishonesty and criminal status.

The following new Muslim site, (and we snapshotted their page below) hasn't even got a greeting or legitimate front up yet, but has made available thousands of copyrighted books, bypassing international copyright agreements:

Front Page of Muslim Pirate Operation: click to enlarge

The link is (or was): http://sheekh-3arb.org/

which translates to an American host-site.

Here is the link to a downloadable and complete copy of Royse's book, found accidentally by merely googling "Novum Testamentum Graece  (Clarendon, 1870)" (found on Google link-page 6 in my browser):

1. [PDF]

   Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri

   File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
   Clarendon Press, 1935. Novum Testamentum Graece secundum ...... “introduction to the text of the Gospels (1870), privately circulated, and not yet published ...
   sheekh-3arb.org/library/books/up_coll1/Scrib_Habits_Greek_NT.pdf

    

    

    

    

 So this is Muslim honesty and integrity.

Nazaroo

Egerton 'Gospel' - Earliest Evidence for Jn 8:1-11?

After nearly a century of intense study of the Egerton 'Gospel'fragments, the dust has pretty much settled about the actual nature ofthe document. It is probably not an unknown '5th gospel', but rather an interesting piece of creative writing, a 'harmony' of sorts of at least three canonical gospels (possibly by a student, or practicing writer/preacher).

It is now virtually admitted that the 'author' used canonical John among other documents (and not vice versa for instance), based upon the nature of the internal evidence in the document.This has made the Egerton papyrus perhaps one of the earliest significant textual witnesses to the existance and circulation of theGospel of John.

However, the use of John being reasonably settled, little thought has apparently been spent upon its possible importance as a witness to the early existance (and location in John) of the Pericope de Adultera. Admittedly, the evidence is very slender and tentative.

But it is a remarkable coincidence, that two phrases are placed in close proximity, in the correct order (the same as in the Pericope), namely,

"rulers...the crowd..."

"Teacher! (didaskale)" ...

"Go...and sin no more!"

In particular, the combination of "Teacher"...(cf. Jn 8:4) and "Sin no more" (Jn 8:11) are eerily reminiscent of the Pericope de Adultera.




But if we admit that the Egerton author had John in front of him already, the next question might be, not whether he himself connected the conversation of Nicodemus ("Rabbi" Jn 3:2) with that of the cripple in Judea ("Sin no more" Jn 5:14), but rather,

"Did the Egerton author use the Pericope de Adultera as an enclosing template for his Leper story?"

Note especially that in John's Gospel Nicodemus uses 'Rabbi', not 'Didaskale', and so Jn 3:2 is less plausible as the source for the 1st statement in the Egerton fragment.

This 2nd century 'harmonizer' uses 'Didaskale' elsewhere as well, making it a kind of trademark for the Egerton work, so this is perhaps not so unusual in itself. Yet...Whatever may be said of the 'softness' of the connection, it must be admitted that the only place in the Entire New Testament, and even among the hundreds of non-canonical 'gospels', where these two phrases come together in this order in close proximity, is the Pericope de Adultera, John 8:1-11.

The Egerton Papyrus and related articles are online here:

Egerton Papyrus Homepage <-- Click Here.