Maundy Thursday Mar 28: Abyssinian Church Reading early 20th century?
Our good ole Logos HAS SO MUCH in it. This is from the coptic apocryphal fragments (James). It combines the participation of animals, and also a critical piece of information completely ignored by the gospels: it was Judas' WIFE that caused the whole problem (at the instigation of Satan yet again). Also Paul of Tarsus was a critical player as well. If we attended the Abyssinian church we'd already know this.
Read in the Abyssinian Church on Maundy Thursday:
"After these things Akrosina, the wife of Simon the Pharisee, brought a rooster cut up with a knife, put it in a magnificent dish, and set it on the table before our Lord. Jesus said, ‘My time is at hand’. He blessed the bread and gave it to Judas. Satan entered into him and he went out—without receiving the blessing of Jesus.
Jesus touched the slain rooster and it stood up whole. He bade it follow Judas and see what he did, and return and report it: he endowed it with human speech. It followed Judas home: his wife urged him to betray Jesus. He went to the temple. The dialogue with the Jews is reported, and Paul of Tarsus, ‘son of Josue Almason, son of Cadafanâ’, a rough man, says, ‘Now, thou, deliver him into my hands without error’.
The rooster returned to Bethany, and sat before Jesus and wept bitterly, and told all the story. The disciples wept. Jesus dismissed the rooster to mount up into the sky for a thousand years. "
So, in theory, the rooster climbed down several centuries back.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Very interesting. Could you tell me what resource / collection this comes from?
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Apocryphal New Testament (James):
logosres:apocntjames;ref=NTApocrypha.Coptic_Narratives_of_the_Ministry_and_Passion;off=8491
I just (kind of) finished Rick's new NT Apocrpha book. The fragments (near the end; not included in James) were quite interesting.
As an example, this from Dura Parchment 24 '... Zebedee and Salome and the wives of those who had followed him from Galilee to see the crucified one. And it was the day of preparation; the Sabbath was beginning. ...' It's associated with Mt 27:56; Mk 15:40; Lk 23:49. Unfortunately as you know 'women' and 'wives' have to be drawn from the context, and the fragment coincidentally blanks out at just the wrong time.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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