Ronald V. Huggins

Greek papyrus fragment P.Hamb.Graec. 1011 On the newly discovered fragment of a childhood story of Jesus. The Greek papyrus fragment P.Hamb.Graec. 1011 in the Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky State and University Library was recently identified as the earliest manuscript fragment of the well-known Infancy Gospel of Thomas , containing a part of the famous second chapter where the child Jesus is said to turn twelve clay sparrows he had made into living ones with a word. An allusion to the story also appears in the Quran's Surah 3:49: "He will say: “I bring you a sign from your Lord. From clay I will create for you the likeness of a bird. I shall breathe into it and, by God’s leave, it shall become a living bird."* The discovery is important because it appears to be the earliest Greek fragment of the work. U ntil now the earliest manuscript that existed for the work in Greek dated to the 11the century ( Cod. Sabaiticus  259).  The fragment also provides further support for th...

The other day a friend of mine asked me to send him a link to a timeline I had posted on Mormon convert David Alexander's religious peregrinations during his purported " 47 years in evangelical Christianity " before becoming a Mormon on 20 March 2023. My friend responded back with one line: "Thanks! This guy is a regular Martin Harris." This was not the first time I had heard the comparison made between Harris and Alexander in the month or so since Alexander popped up on my radar. One person put the question like this: "Is Alexander a fraud or is he a Martin Harris?" As to the former, the idea that Alexander might be a fraud, was not without warrant. For one thing he did not sound like an evangelical. He did not obviously share their emphases or beliefs. If one asks an evangelical, "What is the most important thing for me to know?" His answer would be the same as was given by the Moravian August Gottlieb Spangenberg to the very zealous but...

ILLUMINATED   ARCA - France, Dijon, Bibliothèque municipale - 641 (383) Museum Schnütgen | Ways to discover the collection   c.800 ivory gospel cover with scenes from the life of Jesus including nativity and crucifixion with sol and luna. [Beatus dit d'Arroyo]. Beatus a Liebana, Commentarius in Apocalypsim. | Gallica  World map with Adam and Eve with fig leaves. Cloisters apocalype Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless - Spanish - The Metropolitan Museum of Art   Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, NAL 1366 | Biblissima Vat.lat.39 | DigiVatLib   Baptized in a pile water. 26v 'Rudolf, von Ems: Weltchronik - und erste Fortsetzung (sog. "Wernigeroder Handschrift") - BSB Cgm 8345', Image 6 of 545 | MDZ   unusual Genesis Creation sequence. NO other...