Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

to spare the reader looking up what is
already well-known. In antiquity, of course,
there were no lower-case letters, and thus
in order to represent the Hebrew, Greek and
Coptic scripts I have not here used their
subsequent cursive letters but rather their
classic forms, which are easier for the non-
scholar to read. In turn, in translating such
ancient texts to modern languages, it is
virtually impossible to capitalize in a
consistent and adequate manner; I ask the
reader's indulgence in this regard. Thruout,
‘P...’ represents paragraph numbers in
Plumley's Grammar, ‘C...’ are page numbers
in Crum's Dictionary (Biblio.4+5).
In place of the Greek form, Jesus
(ΙΗΣΟΥΣ), I have used the original Aramaic:
Yeshua ((w#y), meaning ‘Yahweh Savior’, i.e.
‘He-Is Savior’ (Ph 20a). Hyphenated ‘I-Am’
represents the divine self-naming from
Ex 3:14: Hebrew hyh) (ahyh), Greek ΕΓΩ
ΕΙΜΙ, Coptic anok pe (Th 13; P306).
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