define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); Comments on: If Jesus was to preach like he preached in Galillee http://www.makingchutney.com/2004/07/14/if-jesus-was-to-preach-like-he-preached-in-galillee/ One part facial hair. Two parts moxy. Fri, 16 Jul 2004 02:33:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: chutney http://www.makingchutney.com/2004/07/14/if-jesus-was-to-preach-like-he-preached-in-galillee/comment-page-1/#comment-849 Fri, 16 Jul 2004 02:33:44 +0000 http://www.makingchutney.com/posts/2004/07/14/if-jesus-was-to-preach-like-he-preached-in-galillee/#comment-849 I think I’m hot on the trail! I detect in this otherwise unknown prophet an obvious Otisite influence. Here it is, in verse form:

1There shall, in that time,
   be rumours of things going astray, erm,
And there shall be a great confusion
   as to where things really are.

2And nobody will really know
   where lieth those little things wi—
       with the sort of raffia work base
           that has an attachment.

3At this time,
   a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer.

4And the young shall not know
   where lieth the things
       possessed by their fathers
   that their fathers put there
       only just the night before,
           about eight o’clock.

]]> By: chutney http://www.makingchutney.com/2004/07/14/if-jesus-was-to-preach-like-he-preached-in-galillee/comment-page-1/#comment-848 Fri, 16 Jul 2004 02:14:10 +0000 http://www.makingchutney.com/posts/2004/07/14/if-jesus-was-to-preach-like-he-preached-in-galillee/#comment-848 Thomas is a whole new book in Romansch, don’t you agree?

I did find this version of Otis, but it appears to be a corrupt (and severely abridged) derivation. Obviously incomplete.

Then there’s this version, but it has a transparently Mithraist origin (perhaps a cultic manual?). Too late a dating for Otis’ (almost) critiques of priestly collaboration with the Seleucids.

]]> By: Mark Brooks http://www.makingchutney.com/2004/07/14/if-jesus-was-to-preach-like-he-preached-in-galillee/comment-page-1/#comment-847 Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:10:32 +0000 http://www.makingchutney.com/posts/2004/07/14/if-jesus-was-to-preach-like-he-preached-in-galillee/#comment-847 I think I came across The Book of Otis on an obscure website I visited a while back. The problem is that it was about 2am and I was bleary-eyed from comparing translations of The Gospel of Thomas into Flemish and a little known minority language of Switzerland called Romansch, so I completely forgot how I came across that site. I have since cleared my history and cookies files, so I’m at a loss to say how to find it. I just remember that search engines are of no use. Anyway, the gist of The Book of Otis is that he severely takes the king to task for changing he mind so frequently. Only in the colloquial speech of the day he doesn’t complain that the king goes back and forth on his position, but rather up and down. :wink:

]]> By: chutney http://www.makingchutney.com/2004/07/14/if-jesus-was-to-preach-like-he-preached-in-galillee/comment-page-1/#comment-846 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:28:52 +0000 http://www.makingchutney.com/posts/2004/07/14/if-jesus-was-to-preach-like-he-preached-in-galillee/#comment-846 Maybe we just lost that scroll. :???: Maybe the next dig will discover the only extant copy of The Book of Otis, the Almost Prophet. :wink:

]]> By: Melanie http://www.makingchutney.com/2004/07/14/if-jesus-was-to-preach-like-he-preached-in-galillee/comment-page-1/#comment-845 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:36:44 +0000 http://www.makingchutney.com/posts/2004/07/14/if-jesus-was-to-preach-like-he-preached-in-galillee/#comment-845 I can’t think of a single one who was called and got to say “no.”

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