I have been reading a good 'primer' for early Christian Mystics, called "Early Christian Mystics," by McGinn and McGinn, Crossroads, 2003. Some of the things...
I have finally been able to read April DeConick's article (VC 56 2002 pp 167-199) 'The Original Gospel of Thoms. I found it very interesting and the 'Thomas...
... I am less persuaded by this article than others appear to be (cf. my previous message on this, especially in relation to form-critical questions). But I...
... From: Andrew Criddle ... I don't think you can prove literary dependence on the synoptics from the Kernel being "heavily synoptic in nature." For literary...
... I would tend to agree. The amount of parallels to the synoptics in the Thomas kernel is striking. ... In my view, almost all of the synoptic parallels in ...
... Those are certainly important criteria but not the only ones. The presence of redaction, for example, is another good sign of literary dependence. In the...
... From: "sarban" ... Accepting these numbers (I haven't done any calculations myself, but I have no reason to doubt yours) I am not sure why this would...
I don't remember seeing this book mentioned here before but the book "The Language of the Kingdon and Jesus: Parable, Aphorism, and Metaphor in the Sayings...
I have a few layman's questions I could use some help with. Assuming there really is a "Thomas Kernel" that can be OBJECTIVELY (not subjectively) distilled...
Michael Mozina
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Mar 10, 2005 9:14 pm
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In, "The Original Gospel of Thomas (Vigiliae Christianae, Vol LVI, No. 2, 2002, pp. 167-199), April D. DeConick states (pp. 188-189), "The material that can...
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... This second alternative doesn't strike me as at all probable. Are you imagining that the original L.14 might have affirmed traditional Jewish piety with...
Steve Davies has published a wonderful new book, _The Secret Book Of John: The Gnostic Gospel_, issued in paperback and available at $11.55 from amazon.com, at...
... Agreed, and more seriously it is a question of what Thomas does contain, i.e. the full range of triple tradition, double tradition, M, L, so-called Mark-Q...
... This view is some way from the consensus in Q scholarship, though, isn't it? As you may know, I am not myself yet persuaded by the existence of Q, but one...
... From: "Tony Costa" <tmcos@...> To: <johannine_literature@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 2:40 PM Subject: [John_Lit] Matt.11:27 and...
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... From: "Michael Grondin" <mwgrondin@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [GTh] Are Dialogue Units...
fmmccoy
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... Interesting suggestion. (More on that below.) ... We'll have to see what McConick says about that. Since she posits more than one redaction, it may be that...
... I often feel that when we look at the relationship between Thomas and the synoptics we're not playing on a level field and (to extend the metaphor) it's a...
... From: "Andrew Smith" <smithand44@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 2:18 AM Subject: [GTh] Re: Thomas Kernel ... We have...
Hi Andrew, I just finished Jean Yves Leloup's "The Gospel of Philip.' He lays out the Coptic text beside his translation, very much like Kaaren King does in...
... I suppose you're talking about the letter to Theodore attributed to Clement of Alexandria that Morton Smith of Columbia photographed in 1958 and published...
In response to Stephen Carlson, and Jack Kilmon's statement..... I think that Jack is correct in placing Mark and the pre-Gospel material in Alexandria....
... What is your evidence that "Matthew" was ever in Alexandria, Tom? You make a lot of statements about Matthew that don't seem to have any evidentiary basis....
Every time I look at the relation of Mathean stuff to Thomas, I do make assumptions. I think what is getting me is that Matthew does not mention the Gnostic...
... I don't see that he's "in the middle of the Gnostic push" (ugh) in GosThom. He's mentioned, but not in a particularly favorable light. You're a long way ...
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