This is notice that I've uploaded a spreadsheet for Gordon's stratification scheme to our Files section (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gthomas/files)- together...
Hi Bill, Andrew, and All, As to pre-70's and post-70's material, Bill says: "I mean, come on! Let's not get so caught up in the standard rhetorics of our...
... Sorry that I forgot who had asked me about this. That page is pretty impressive. Have YOU tried to contact them? The last time I tried they just completely...
I wanted to make the XTalk discussions on Gordon's stratification of GTh more immediately available to members, but rather than copy the entire contents of...
Hi Tom, ... Thank you. I am largely in agreement with some of your ... I agree that I think this was "a writing crowd," that we are working from only bits of...
Hi Gordon, Welcome to the group. I am largely in agreement with some of your suggestions on the development of the GThom. Frank McCoy and I agree that parts...
... Hi Tom and all, Mike suggested I might want to join the group and so I have. I appreciate your and others interest in my work on G.Th. To your questions: ...
Gordon Raynal: "(as Q1 is redacted with Classical Prophetic and Apocalyptic resources and reflections, I would suggest this different sort of schema) I would...
The following is a note that appeared on the Crosstalk2 list on March 20th. The author (Gordon Raynal) has given me permission to repost it to the GThomas...
I had a couple of questions about why I equate the early Christian communities such as those who collected the Gospel of Thomas / Q sayings with the Essenes....
Hi Steve, You remember well, but Philo does more than mention the "Therapeutae" - he wrote a little book about them! It is available as "Philo of Alexandria: ...
... From: "John Philipose" <john_philipose@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 10:15 AM Subject: [GTh] A Question... ... I...
Ladies and Gentlemen of the group... I was going through the English translation of the Dead Sea scrolls and came across a few references to an "Angel...
I am both curious and confused on the information I have recently been reading about Essenes. Is Szckely's work on the "Gospel of the Essenes" legitimate?...
... Maurice, This wording is so similar to Thomas that of course I had to look it up right away. Could Meyer have missed it in his copious citation of literary...
Thomas Logion 2, (Jesus said Let him who seeks not cease seeking until he finds. And when he finds he will be troubled and when he is troubled he will be...
In an earlier post I suggested that Saying 50 should be interpreted as instructions for the soul about what to say to the hostile Archons the world rulers of...
Hi Frank, There are more than one creationist myths in the Gnostic works, if you include additional stuff like some of the Alexandrean work. Without...
Hi All, After I looked through Theodotus' brief work ( Thank you Andrew) I found a reference to the Apocalypse of Peter. Theodotus: 48. "For instance, Peter...
This posting considers Thomas saying (79). It attempts to reconstruct the original form of this saying and to show how Luke has used this original saying. We...
I ought to have posted this before but Bart Ehrman's excellent new book 'Lost Christianities' has a good chapter on the Gospel of Thomas as well as a general...
Hi Dexter, Thank you for the input on the word kenoma. Now I don't feel so bad for using the term, although it is not something I have run into in the Gnostic...
... Huh? Look, the Jung Codex IS Codex I. There aren't two books; there's only one physical book with two different names. This book was originally one of the...
Hi Scott, Thank you for your post. Origen was a student of Clement, who was a former student of Clement's teachers Plotinus, and Ammonius. Origen started a...
