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Who here has the courage to reject the Pericope Adulterae?
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Shlama Rev. Bauscher,

Appealing to Greek and Latin manuscripts doesn't make your position any more convincing to me ,personally, but I'm not the person you're looking to convince. The question originally posted was about the rejection of the Pericope Adulterae, and my response has simply been the same for years: it's not in the Peshitta, there is no Aramaic record of it until much later in the textual history and that fact is clearly demonstrated. I need not go into all the sordid details. But needless to say, the Church of the East agrees with the earliest testimony even from the Church of the West...this is a later (spurious) reading.

gbausc Wrote:I know the COE does not have an official position on the authenticity or inspiration of the Western 5 books; apparently it has none on the pericope de adultera, or it would not be contained in John's Gospel, even with brackets and a note. Does not its presence there betray a doubt about its possible authenticity, as opposed to outright rejection?

The Church of the East is not the publisher of the New York edition. It was the Chaldean Church, which broke off with the Church of the East in the 16th century and became subject to the authority of the Roman Church. You can guess why those 5 books, along with the pericope de adultera, are in that printed edition.

We don't change the scripture, period. We don't add anything, we don't subtract anything. To think that all those scribes for centuries literally counted letters back and forth until they went blind, to be sure no errors crept in....only to have people come along later and include things in brackets, as if the manuscripts ever read that way.

I said it before, and I'll repeat myself: I find nothing in the story that is unorthodox. I think it sounds like something Meshikha might have even said. It's a very touching story, spiritually edifying. But canonicity is something that, to our tradition, is strictly defined: it must have been written by one of the Apostles, or their immediate successors. And the story is not part of our textual history, nor that of the earliest manuscripts of the West.

gbausc Wrote:You really are shooting from the hip a lot these days. What's the beef?

Qasheesha Dave

Like you did on amazon.com? <!-- sConfusedarcasm: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/sarcasm.gif" alt="Confusedarcasm:" title="Sarcasm" /><!-- sConfusedarcasm: --> I'll tell you what the beef is. To this day you have not apologized to Andrew, but just show up and act like nothing happened. Did you think we all forgot and all is forgiven?

I'm not resorting to the level that you did. I never attacked you personally, as you did to Andrew, calling him (among other things) a thief, and accusing him of plagiarism.

Shooting from the Hip insinuates that one speaks without being aware of the repercussions of his words. I am fully aware of the repercussions of my words. Everyone who knows me, or who has been here for any length of time, knows that my words are never meant to be mean spirited, or an attack on a person. Can you say the same thing about how you treated Andrew?

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Re: Who here has the courage to reject the Pericope Adultera - by Paul Younan - 03-08-2011, 03:54 AM

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