Hey everyone: Does anyone out there feel like trying to cook up ANALOGIES to GThomas from other religious traditions, or just plain "culture"? I don't mean...
... Likewise Jim Bauer suggests material from Nietzsche. I must confess to being a HUGE Blake fan, though not nearly so fond of Nietzsche. In any case, while I...
It seems I am going to change the subject or open a new one. That is not because the current debate isn't fascinating, please carry on. I am writing because I...
The Gospel of Thomas (gTh) begins with a self reflective hermaneutic I call the Prologue on Seeking (P-11). This of course, contra the thoughts of some, would...
I would argue there is no basis for 'Thomas' as being an instrument of counter cultural in its original intent if that intent was to pass on Jesus sayings....
Jesus said: Adam came to be from a great power & great wealth, but he did not become worthy of you. For had he been worthy, he would not experience death. ...
Virtually every attempt by scholars, and others, to identify one single thematic pattern in the Gospel of Thomas has been conspicuously unsuccessful. Now,...
... ending, ... the ... will ... returns to ... Jim- I think I asked you before where you got this "for my sake" from. I don't recall your answer, but it's not...
http://www.BelovedDisciple.org I found the above link while researching the two Mary's: the Mother of God (or least in RCC usage) vs. Mary Magdalene, still...
David B. Stanforth writes> He started Seeking God's face, so to speak. Then he found the treasure. Now he wasn't a fool. He knew what to do with the money. He...
... How on earth do we *know* this? I see no evidence for it at all. ... I see no evidence for this, either. ... One would have to be (anal, that is) to...
Jim Bauer wrote: What's paradoxical here--and certainly this is one of the more koan-like sayings in Thomas--is that the repetition of the term body usually...
The Coptic Mark.... The following is from Easton's Bible Dic. "At a later period he (Mark) was with Peter in Babylon (1 Pet. 5:13), then, and for some...
There's been some talk of trying to identify the strata in Thomas; I'd like to hypothesize that saying 88 was added to the gthomas somewhere between 50-80CE....
Hello, This note was originally posted to XTalk and has been posted to GThomas as well at the request of Mike Grondin. Please feel free to respond in either ...
... From: "Anne Karin Alhaug" <annealh@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Cc: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 2:16 AM Subject:...
The information on this website is impressive and I think may answer many of the questions this group has posed. The paper on Gnostic heresy may reveal why...
I read in the Catholic Enayclopedia that Salome was the daughter of Herod Philip and Herodias, at whose request John the Baptist was beheaded. Was this...
... that the "treasure"; was "a bible". Actually, the suggestion was that the _field_ was a bible. It could scarcely be, as you point out, a _Xian_ bible, but...
I was just browsing thru the GT earlier today and discovered a rather paradoxical statement which, so far as I know, has never been discussed by the group: ...
Awhile back, in the discussion of #95 and #109, the idea was put forth that the "treasure"; was "a bible". I sincerely doubt that as, at least IMO, the bible...
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