Nazaroo on ChristianForums.com

These posts represent several years of debate, assistance and discussion on one of the best Christian forums going on the internet. It was a joy to virtually live and work in this environment while writing many thousands of posts and articles.

Previously Unconsidered Evidence for John 8:1-11

Last 12 Verses of Mark: Part II

The Real meaning of the Wedding at Cana

Gaffs in UBS Greek text (case by case): #1 HAPLOGRAPHY

The True Meaning of "Under the Law" in Paul

Assistance for KJV users - word updates

James (1979) on Jn 8:1-11 and the Death Penalty

Dean Burgon for Dummies! a modern explanation

Jesus Slam-Dunks 19th cent. Biblical Critics - no quarter given!

The REAL Secret Mark: Cracking the Code of the Lukan Omission

Nazaroo on Theology-Web

A Sample of various posts by Nazaroo on Theology Web. Although theology Web is supposed to be a Christian site, it is in fact moderated by such madmen as "MountainMan", who believes that Christianity was invented by Emperor Chrysostom in 310 A.D....


Authenticity of John 8:1-11
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showthread.php?t=97369

Interpretation of John 8:1-11
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showthread.php?t=97551

No "priest" function in NT (other than Jesus)
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showthread.php?t=98345

Ehrman exposed
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showpost.php?p=2129817&postcount=136

Debasement of women in Western Media
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showthread.php?t=98093

Remarriage for a Christian
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showthread.php?t=100345

What's So Wrong With Premarital Sex?
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showpost.php?p=1971788&postcount=68

Why, exactly, is porn wrong?
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showpost.php?p=1981183&postcount=73
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showthread.php?t=83180&page=5

Pericope Adultera: why are they still casting stones at her?
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showthread.php?t=80297

Nazaroo's Website

Yep, I have my own website, over here at:

http://nazaroo.awardspace.com

I am solely responsible for its content, more or less.

peace
Nazaroo

Bible Forum Posts I: Theology Online - Religion

Just a sample of Nazaroo's threads from the last 20 pages of TOL forums alone:

Drug Dealing and the Bible:
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60269

The Hidden Hand of the Unitarians behind the 'modern versions'
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66488

Why John 8:1-11 is Authentic
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25572

Darkness Coming in which No one can work...More volcanic ash
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66408

The KJV doesn't need defending.
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66321

Is There Anything Jesus Does Not Know?
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66455

Herr Clinton puts Israel's nuclear weapons on chopping block in surprise speech
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66339

Nazis under Goebbels invented pedophile slander campaigns
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66268

The Modern Intellectual Ghetto of Textual Criticism
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66175

Wakeup Time: More Earthquakes in Diverse Places
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65819

Volcanic Eruption in Iceland more serious than first thought..
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65910

Haiti Quake caused the world's largest jailbreak
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65004

Stupid Gaffs in the UBS Greek Text - Haplography
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59944

Messing up the Four Horses of the Apocalypse
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64457

Stupid Gaffes in the UBS text II: Other Boners
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62283

Berkoff on the Authorship of John's Gospel
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64165

For the Record: Samples of Political Posts by Naz

Sample of Political issues Nazaroo was moved to comment on since 2006

Fingerprints taken from Homeless in Canada
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58209

Rich Arabs torture people then get VIP status in USA
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58210

Decision Final: Israelis WILL nuke Iran - USA Neocons willng stooges
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51226

Bush's racist roots and mental pathology
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48249

Fools: Bush has taken power to declare emergency and suspend election in secret bill
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50029

Army Report showing no connection between Saddam & Al Qaeda to be suppressed
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47173

Americans' Rights go down the Toilet
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46692

Iraq War: producing killers and dysfunctional veterans
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45383

British fighting hard against Big Brother and winning
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45250

2 Soldiers critical of Iraq War suspiciously killed
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41734

Unlimited Fuel Source in Saltwater
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41735

Bush admits Explosives used in 9/11
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40698

Kurdish teenage girl stoned to death
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41138

Rumsfeld lied about bone-breaking torture:interrogator
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40985

75-100 children disappear per day now in USA
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40944

High Treason: Bush ships gold to China
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27769

resurrecting my blog

Back 3 years ago, blogging simply wasn't that exciting.

I've decided that blogging is now popular enough that people (friends and opponents) may well find the time and chance to post their own opinions on the Pericope de Adultera (PA) and other matters.

I look forward to comments, and prospective authors who wish to make notes and sound of on current issues in Textual Criticism and Biblical studies.

peace,
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.