I have noticed repeatedly that most translators of Thomas ... certainly Blatz, Lambdin, Layton, Patterson / Meyer, Doresse (also Mike Grondin) tend to...
To the average student of Thomas, logion 71 appears to the "naked eye" as a bit of a take off on John 2:18 - 22 ... 2.18 The Jews then said to him, "What sign...
... Sure. Coptic suffers from lack of a neuter gender. So it has to make do with either masculine or feminine. In the case in question, the morpheme involved...
... I don't agree with your "of course". In fact, I don't have that impression at all. Jesus is plenty intolerant in John's Gospel. ... One possibility is that...
What follows is an argument that an important phase of the development of Thomas occurred at the Corinthian Assembly in the mid fifties. In this post, the...
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Thank you Mike ... When you point out "In L5, however, there's no referent, so it probably ... are dealing with something which Jesus said, it is safe to...
On the term "house" in Thomas 71. Reply to J.M.G. Cornier Using the word "house" for the Jerusalem Temple is normal usage in Hebrew and Aramaic. Compare the...
... No. The fact that L5 has Jesus speaking to others has no implication whatsoever about WHAT it is that he is supposed to be saying. Here is a consideration...
Thank you both Dr.Bóid and Mike Grondin for your insightful contributions on my question regarding Thomas 71. If indeed "The Greek of the New Testament and...
Hello Mike, You said "One possibility is that the Temple was no longer relevant (because it was no longer in use) when L5 reached the form in which we find...
David- What you call a "conclusion" was clearly labelled a "possibility". I've always been agnostic on date/place of origin, so I'm open to many possibilities....
Greetings all, and all the best for 2008. I was having a bit of a cyber-joust with a colleague of mine earlier this week, and sensed that neither of us came...
It's late and I'm just about to go to bed, but it would seem to me that Judas Didymos Thomas is probably named thus because the Greek speakers called him...
Hello Judy … … interesting observation that " … Judas Didymos Thomas is probably named thus because the Greek speakers called him Didymos and the Aramaic...
Happy New Year Maurice and everyone, I am new to the forum and am an author on dreams and mysticism best known for Ariadne's Book of Dreams, Warner Books and...
Hi Maurice ... Well, the Gospel of Thomas certainly starts by telling us that it contains the secret words that Judas the Twin the Twin wrote down, which would...
Hi Maurice, ... Undoubtedly, the simple name is used in 20:26-28 because the character had already been specified as "called Didymos" in 20:24, and there was...
Top of the season to you Ariadne … Further to your recent post, indeed, most people read Thomas while necessarily assuming that "the name of the person who ...
... I personally don't find the notion that Jesus was a twin particularly ... myth, this would mean that said twin was also conceived by the Holy Spirit and...
... Sorry, Maurice, but you're misquoting me here. I was referring only to the specific tri-form name used in Coptic Thomas. I have no idea about any general...
... Still can't locate the reference to this, but with respect to DIDYMOS, a simple Greek dictionary indicates that it can mean 'double' or 'two-fold', which...
Thank you Mike if you run across the etymology interpretation you were refering to let me know. I found Westcotts reference to the number 5, which does...
... I assume you mean April DeConick, who is currently a Professor at Rice University, seeing this sounds like her work. If this is who you mean, I am not...
In support of the theory that Matthew used Mk and Th as sources and that Luke used Mk, Th and Mt as sources, I offer the following argument regarding Mt...
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Hi Maurice, I agree that the one who is praised is not the author of the Gospel and that a great deal of mystery lies within tri-fold name that could be...
A topic that is somewhat related to the most recent discussions on this list is the subject of nicknames. In various places in the New Testament (and outside...
Hi Kevin- You mentioned ... ... I think you might have this name mixed up with 'Barabbas', which could, I suppose, be taken to mean 'son of the father', but...
April DeConick's book _The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation_ has been out in paperback for a couple of months now, and I was at long last able to...
Hi Mike. For what it's worth, I much prefer your characterization of this logia as Irony, and think your take is the more correct. For me the statement is...
Hi Ron, L105 "He who *will* know the father and the mother will be called 'the son of (the?) harlot'." There is the possibility that what is being addressed...
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