The Gospel of Thomas contains a previously unknown saying attributed to Jesus concerning Divine election. Saying 23 of the Gospel of Thomas reads (Lambdin...
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According to Publishers Weekly (17 Feb) and amazon.com, a new book by Elain Pagels will appear in May: Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas Random House ...
Thank you all for your responses to my questions about the "Pistis-Sophia." I just got Crossan and Reed's book, "Excavating Jesus." The text is about...
Rich compares the GThom to Zen.... Zen Buddhism was started by Bodidharma about 650 A.D. He was from the Madras area of India and migrated to the Fukien...
I've been somewhat unsatisfied with my previous suggestion that the bulk of lines 69-70 is to be moved to join with the single word ("of-the heavens") on line...
Several lines in my previous note were garbled in transmission. ... I've been somewhat unsatisfied with my previous suggestion that the bulk of lines 69-70 is...
Tom- Seems to me you've conflated a few things that ought not to be conflated. What you call "the docetic state" was applicable only to Jesus (if anyone)....
".....the topic of pre-existence." If we look at the sayings in the GThom, that are relevant to the subject of both pre-existence and post existence, we can...
Since there has not been much activity lately I thought I'd throw out something for discussion. I came across some passages in the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) that...
This newly redesigned web site has the original Coptic and Greek, multiple translations, parallel passages, scholarly quotes, and visitor comments on each...
Peter - ... I think that your website is a very practical tool for studying the Gospel of Thomas. By providing searchable text, commentary, and parallels, you...
... Along ... this ... Frank, It seems to me that both the "pearl" & the "merchandise" may be metaphorical, & not at all linked to Tyre or Indian trade routes....
Let us look at GTh 76, "Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of the Father is like a merchant who had a consignment of merchandise and who discovered a pearl. That...
Early Christian Writings has received a mention in the Monday (Dec. 23) edition of the Wall Street Journal, in an editorial column titled "Thinking it Over" by...
Tom, I would certainly agree with you that "The Contender" shows evidence of a familiarity with GTh. But I would like to focus on your citation of Thom 21 and...
Both Crossan and Robinson make the claim that "The Book of Thomas The Contender" is composed from two or more other documents. It is the first part of the...
Bill Arnal's review of Jacobus Liebenberg's _The Language of the Kingdom and Jesus: Parable, Aphorism, and Metaphor in the Sayings Material Common to the ...
... I won't quibble with that statement, as long as no one understands it to mean that the later one (the Coptic) was a "faithful copy" of the earlier one. In...
In some past posts, I have advanced the hypothesis that GThomas can be divided into three strata: (1) Proto-Thomas, the earliest strata and a gospel that...
The search for strata in Thomas presupposes that Thomas is indeed stratified. Can we assume this? Is there any incontrovertable evidence which shows that GTh...
... for it! Sorry, but I'm not trying to mold GThom to a model, Tom. I don't much care what "model" it ends up conforming to. I just wanna know for sure, so I...
Mike, There are numerous possibilities in Thomas which would suggest some form of alignment to a model, or acrostic matrix. But which model? There is also...
In a message dated 12/03/2002 13:43:12PM, mwgrondin@... writes: << But with respect to the plausibility of the theory, if it weren't for the fact that...
In thinking about the structure of a possible journal article presenting the Thomas mystery-puzzle theory, the material (or argument) seemed to divide itself...
Hello, I have made some progress on this project. http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/thomas/ Does anyone have any suggestions? I would be grateful if people...
The purpose of this note is to give everyone a copy of a one-page writeup that I prepared for handing out to a few folks at the SBL meeting. I ended up handing...
... Damn! We should have connected beforehand on e-mail just to prevent this sort of thing. I never leave my name in that damn rolodex, and this time around...
Just back from the SBL Meeting in Toronto - a thousand bucks poorer, but somewhat richer in experience and knowledge. The first-time amateur (like myself) is...
