Exactly 60 years after The Gospel of Thomas was unearthed, the first Chinese gThomas book, entitled "The Spiritual Analects of Jesus - The Gospel of Thomas"...
Where is this book available for purchase? As a lover of both the Gospel of Thomas and the Jesus Sutras, I'd love to have to have this book. I couldn't find...
... <snip> ... Hi Benedict, In what context is the Gospel of the Holy Twelve introduced? It's a late nineteenth century fake by Rev. G. J. Ouseley. Andrew...
... Hi Andrew: If the 1st edition of the Gospel of Holy 12 (GoH12) was published a few years earlier than the Greek fragments of GoTh unearthed, we all needs...
I am not sure how many people read Chinese in this group. Since Darrel asked, let me give further information for your convenience. You can buy the book from...
Hi everyone, I thought some on this list might be interested to know that Crum's "Coptic Dictionary", which is currently out of print, is about to be released ...
Dear all, Crum is actually available now from Wipf and Stock. Check out http://www.wipfandstock.com/bookstore.cfm?bookID=2131&do=detail It's a very nice...
A few years ago, my friend introduced me about the Gospel of Holy 12 (GoH12), I quickly scanned it and found that it is a book compiled canonical gospels and...
(I'm sorry! There are typos in the last paragraph that I must correct them) .... On the other hand, if the author(s) of the GoH12 intended to compile gospel...
Time and again, I find myself stumbling over the term "Christian", i.e. Christian Gnostic, Christian Jew, Pauline Christianity, etc. What is Christianity? Am I...
Hi benedict, If you post the parallels between Thomas and GHoly12 we could discuss them. It looks like Ousley used known agrapha when he constructed the ...
... From: "benedictlo1" <benedictlo1@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 10:14 PM Subject: [GTh] A preliminarily work on a...
... discuss them. ... I am sure that I have not exhausted all the potential correlated materials. So let me post the first set of my problems below. Your ...
Benedict, The simple answer is that Ousley used the Oxyrhynchus Greek fragments of Thomas published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1898 and 1904. The sayings below...
... I think that Christianity is defined differently for different purposes and it depends quite a bit on who is defining it. I suspect that some of my ...
... Andrew: I believe others investigators including myself would have a similar answer. To be fair, we need to find the earliest version of GH12 (1892-189?),...
... Gosh, from the preface alone I'd judge it bogus. "Given to us in the flesh"? Might as well have a red sticker on it. Mike Grondin Mt. Clemens, MI...
... I think that this question raises a number of interesting issues. Relevant to the Gospel of Thomas, it seems to imply that that text isn't Christian, ...
... flesh"? ... Mike: By the same token, after reading the first 50 -100 pages of the BIBLE, many educated oriental trash it. Nevertheless, our brains also ...
David.. Yeah, I think your right. I tend to think that the word christian in the historical context started with Paul's mission. It was unknown before that and...
As I understand it, this is not exclusively a Christian concept, but is accepted Pharisaical theology which means that the principal cannot be the defining...
From _The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions_, by Borg and Wright: "We are both committed to the vigorous practice of the Christian faith ... we both acknowledge...
... Hello, Mike, While I agree that a demand for orthodoxy even to the point of belief in the resurrection is not an appropriate litmus test for what should be...
... Good point. OTOH, can we consider them *not* Christian in the absence of concrete evidence that they didn't? Given that Thomas displays no interest in any...
... That judgment would depend upon several things. Could you really *expect* a definitive statement in Thomas to the effect "Jesus said: 'I am not a...
... Hi Benedict All the above examples, (except for GH12 - 39:5 //GTh - 96 which is IMO weak), are found in P Oxyrhynchus 1 this was first published in 1897...
... I agree. In the case of the Thomas community, I don't think we have sufficient information to make a definitive statement either way. On the basis of the...
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