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Re: [Fwd: Homo tricubitalis]

From: Craig S de Vos <csdevos AT trinity.unimelb.edu.au>
To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Homo tricubitalis]
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:17:38 +1000

>This reference may be found in Acts of Paul and Thecla 2.3.
>
>Mark Nanos
>
I don't have access to the Greek of Acts of Paul and Thecla, which was the
text that immediately sprang to my mind also, but in the English
translation I have it reads "a man small in size", not "four feet and a
half in height". Maybe the latter translation involves an ethnocentric
anachronism?

Craig

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[Fwd: Homo tricubitalis], Jeffrey B. Gibson, 04/12/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Fwd: Homo tricubitalis], Mark D. Nanos, 04/12/1999
- Re: [Fwd: Homo tricubitalis], Sheila E. McGinn, Ph.D., 04/12/1999
- Re: [Fwd: Homo tricubitalis], Craig S de Vos, 04/12/1999
- Re: [Fwd: Homo tricubitalis], Licia Kuenning, 04/12/1999
- Re: [Fwd: Homo tricubitalis], David C. Hindley, 04/12/1999