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Revision 22 . . (edit) November 17, 2001 8:28 am by MichaelTinkler
Revision 21 . . November 17, 2001 8:28 am by MichaelTinkler [explanation of some revisions. ]
Revision 20 . . October 30, 2001 1:30 am by BF [comments]
Revision 19 . . (edit) October 29, 2001 8:42 pm by MichaelTinkler
Revision 18 . . (edit) October 29, 2001 8:40 pm by MichaelTinkler
Revision 17 . . October 29, 2001 8:39 pm by MichaelTinkler [comment on 'stable text' issue]
Revision 16 . . (edit) October 29, 2001 8:02 pm by (logged).255.83.xxx [Fair use continued]
Revision 15 . . October 29, 2001 8:02 pm by (logged).255.83.xxx [Fair use continued]
Revision 14 . . October 22, 2001 1:15 pm by BF [fair use]
Revision 13 . . October 21, 2001 8:37 pm by Stephen Gilbert
Revision 12 . . October 21, 2001 4:17 pm by Sjc
Revision 11 . . October 21, 2001 2:44 pm by MichaelTinkler
Revision 10 . . October 21, 2001 2:43 pm by BF [compromise]
Revision 9 . . (edit) October 21, 2001 2:08 pm by EdwardOConnor
Revision 8 . . (edit) October 21, 2001 2:06 pm by EdwardOConnor
Revision 7 . . October 21, 2001 2:06 pm by EdwardOConnor
Revision 6 . . October 21, 2001 1:30 pm by BF
Revision 5 . . October 21, 2001 1:28 pm by BF
Revision 4 . . October 21, 2001 12:28 pm by Larry Sanger
Revision 3 . . October 21, 2001 11:48 am by BF
Revision 2 . . October 21, 2001 11:37 am by BF [answer]
Revision 1 . . October 21, 2001 11:32 am by Stephen Gilbert [copyright?]
  

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I revised first sentence to reflect the simple truth that sophia means wisdom in any form of Greek; perhaps more tendentious (though obviously *I* think it's true) is that in a Gnostic context it means 'esoteric wisdom'. I also removed the strange italics on the paragraph at the bottom of the page and qualified the dating of the Gnostic texts. Many, if not most scholars believe that the Gnostic texts are significantly later than the late first century. None of the Nag Hammadi manuscripts are earlier than the 3rd century, so they are not exactly great evidence of earliness. They are in Coptic, which implies (to some scholars) that if they were written in Greek there must have been some lag time, but no mainstream scholar of New Testament text studies puts the first 2 gospels later than 90 (that is, late 1st century). Some actually put them earlier than that. Elaine Pagels is FAR from the only or first specialist in Early Christianity. --MichaelTinkler

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