An Ethiopic Manuscript of John's Gospel

The Roasted Cock Crows: Apocryphal Writings (acts of Peter, the Ethiopic Book of the Cock, Coptic Fragments, the Gospel of Nicodemus) and Folklore Texts*

A miracle story of apocryphal origin (supposedly the Act of Peter), transformed into a plot with a typical paradoxical element, became popular in the oriental Christianity and in medieval Europe: this is how it got into the apocryphal New Testament narratives; among others into the newly discovered Ethiopian Book of the Cock, some early Coptic fragments and the medieval manuscripts of the Gospe...

An alternative Gospel of structure: order, composition, processes

We survey some basic mathematical structures, which arguably are more primitive than the structures taught at school. These structures are orders, with or without composition , and (symmetric) monoidal categories. We list several 'real life' incarnations of each of these. This chapter also serves as an introduction to these structures and their current and potentially future uses in linguistics...

Online Handwriting Recognition of Ethiopic Script

Online recognition of handwritten characters is gaining a renewed interest as it provides a natural way of data entry for a wide variety of handheld devices. In this paper, we present online handwriting recognition system for Ethiopic script based on the structural and syntactical analysis of the strokes forming characters. The complex structures of characters are represented by the spatiotempo...

Speaking with the Gospel

Gospel of the Third Dimension

Obviously, removing the supernatural from the Bible touches the foundation facts of the Christian faith: the incarnation and. resurrection of Christ. And it is interesting to observe that even scholars who engage in the demythologizing ‘process take issue with one another over their treatment of these, crucial matters. Yet the dilemma seems to be that if one does not retain the incarnation and ...