Coe College Professor Aids Nag Hammadi Library Work
Dr Malcolm Peel of Coe College chaired a religion and philosophy department team that helped publish The Nag Hammadi Library in English. The project, involving 20 scholars, translated codices discovered near the Nile in 1945, shedding light on early Christianity and Gnostic thought amid Cold War era intrigue.
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Efrem Zimbalist Jr
Coe College
Malcolm Peel
Peel
Department of Religion and Philosophy
Coe
Nag Hammadi Library
Nile River
Harper and Row
E.J. Brill Publishing Company
Leiden
Netherlands
Dead Sea
Palestine
Jerusalem
Jabal al-Tarif
Nile
Upper
Egypt
Pachomius
Seth
Adam
Yale University
Nag Hammadi
Middle East
Zurich
Switzerland
Carl Jung
Translators Unveil Nag Hammadi Texts In Five Volume Project
Peel describes the painstaking work to assemble and translate the Nag Hammadi codices. The process included photographing fragile sheets, arranging fragments, and producing handwritten transcripts and a retrograde Coptic index.
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Peel
Coe
Jerry Minsall
Just Jesus program to be held at Bethany Lutheran Church
A Sunday 7 p m performance titled Message Center Just Jesus features Sesame Street characters and three Minnesota youth. Open to the public at Bethany Lutheran Church 2202 Forest Dr SE. A reception for Dr and Mrs Eugene Hancock is set at St Pauls United Methodist Church 1340 Third Ave SE.
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Bethany Lutheran Church
Forest Dr. SE
Minnesota
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
Third Ave
Eugene Hancock
Hancock
Des Moines
St. Paul’s
Arnold Herbst
Sioux City
Rebekah Home For
Corpus Christi
Texas
Galilee Baptist Church
Washington Ave. SE
Rebekah
Churches Announce New Summer Service Schedules
Area churches unveil altered summer timetables with varying Sunday worship times and Sunday school options. Noelridge Baptist schedules 7 30 p m evening services through Aug 27. others list morning services at 10, 9, or 8 45 a m and optional or no church school. Betsy-end details include First Baptist First Christian Bethany Lutheran Lovely Lane Kenwood Park St Marks Pale and First United Methodist Marion with service and class times.
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Church of the Foursquare Gospel
First Ave
Noelridge Baptist Church
Clifton St. NE
First Baptist Church
12Th St
Second Ave
First Christian Church
Third Ave
Bethany Lutheran Church
Forest Drive
Lovely Lane United Methodist Church
42Nd St. NE
Kenwood Park Presbyterian Church
35Th St
St. Mark’s United Methodist
Johnson Ave
Pale United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church
Marion
Ebla Tablets Rewrite Prebiblical History of Bible
Archaeology at Tell Mardikh Syria reveals an ancient Ebla empire rivaling Egypt and Mesopotamia. Tablets include biblical names and places such as Sodom, Gomorrah, Yahweh, Abram and Melchizedek showing early historical memory and connections to Genesis.
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Ebla
Carlo Martini
Pontifical Biblical Institute
Rome
Egypt
Martini
United States
Plains
Sodom
Gomorrah
Paola Matthiae
Tell Mardikh
Syria
Baal
Samuel
Abram
David
Essau
Saul
Michael
Israel
Ebrum
Iden
Eber
Salem
Melchizedek
Installation set at St. Pauls Lutheran Church
The Rev. Steven J. Melvin will be installed as pastor of St. Pauls Lutheran Church at 915 27th St Marion at 2 p.m. Sunday. The service will be conducted by Rev. John Zimmerman of the Iowa East District LCMS with Rev. Richard Thompson preaching. Melvin, a Belton Texas native, holds a BA from Concordia Senior College and an MDiv from Concordia Seminary. He previously vicared in Hammond Indiana and served Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Franklin Indiana. He and his wife Elizabeth will reside in Cedar Rapids.
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St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
27Th St
Marion
John Zimmerman
Iowa East District
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
Richard Thompson
St. Paul’s Church
Randolph Mueller
Cedar Rapids
Melvin
Belton
Texas
Concordia Senior College
Fort Wayne
Ind
Concordia Seminary
St. Louis
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Hammond
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