Hi Richard, Thank you for your comments. In general, I agree on the uncertainties of reconstructing Q. For example, I wonder about elements of Q ending up in...
Hi, Mike - ... Just to be clear on one point... the murkiness you describe is relegated only to the use of the terms "brother" and "neighbor" and the...
Kevin Johnson
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Aug 1, 2008 7:36 pm
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... Agreed! I think it is fair to say that there is a consensus that common order is one of the best ways to show literary dependence. However, scholars like...
The phrase, "not taste death," occurs four times in Thomas (GTh 1, 18, 19, 85) and also at Jn 8:52. A variant, "not see death," occurs once in Thomas (GTh 111)...
... wrote: (with respect to "taste death" and "see death" etc ) The distinction between "know" and "keep" appears to be significant and doctrinal. GTh 18 and...
... Hi Richard, For GTh 32-33, Patterson notes "this cluster presents a host of difficulties." He offers: "relatively late scribal activity is probably the...
... Not exactly. Due to a small number of common conventions, there may be more commonality in general, but the description of the translation process doesn't...
I regret to announce that Jacob Knee has stepped down as Moderator of GThomas. Along with Bill Arnal, Jacob has been a Moderator since October, 1999, when...
... Paul, a Mark/Q overlap means that Q theorists assume that the logion is found in both Q and Mark. I am not aware of any current Q reconstruction that does...
Hi, Paul - ... 85) and also at Jn 8:52. A variant, "not see death," occurs once in Thomas (GTh 111) and also at Jn 8:51. Five of these sayings are from the...
Kevin Johnson
achilles377@...
Aug 5, 2008 3:09 am
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Hi Maurice, A final (?) note on the translation of L43.3. The form is this: "You've become N-QE N-NI-IOYDAIOS ..." (n.b. the 'NI') The relevant section of...
... standard ... influenced by ... Yes, Mike ! ... this now makes a lot of sense. "Those Judeans" (as opposed to "The Jews") would be normal vernacular for...
... Hi Richard, Of course that is consistent with the view that both Mark and Q derive from Thomas. Maybe I should call this the Five Source Theory! ... I...
... intensive form of the verb "to hear"... My suspicion is then that "hearing and obeying" have the same "extended meaning" ... Hi Maurice, Thank you for your...
Hi Kevin, ... No, at least not entirely. In comparing your position (that 'neighbor' was original) to DeConick's (that 'brother' was original), it seems to...
... [snip] ... Greetings to all, This is my first post to this group (thank you for admitting me into it). I am a layperson and have been interested in GTh for...
... into it). I am a layperson and have been interested in GTh for about 35 years. My main focus of interest is the catchword structure and what it may (or may...
... [snip] ... Thank you, very much. ... The conclusion I came to twenty years ago was that the order in which we now have GTh was not its original order. I...
Hi Don- ... I think you mean Tau-Rho. Picture at: http://www.geocities.com/mwgrondin/pictures/cross.jpg I hope you'll familiarize yourself with my site, as we...
... edited, ... Well ... there you go Don ! I think you and Mike have just started a thread. I'm going to vote for it being a Coptic or Gnostic Ankh. (see: ...
... From: Michael Grondin <mwgrondin@...> To: gthomas@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 9:41:32 AM Subject: Re: [GTh] The tradition behind...
... From: jmgcormier <cobby@...> Well ... there you go Don ! I think you and Mike have just started a thread. I'm going to vote for it being a Coptic...
After sending my last post I realized that the symbol in L55 probably IS a monogrammatic Tau-Rho. The whole thing is an abbreviation for the Greek word...
Parallel relationships among the gospels, for a specific saying or account, have been difficult to visualize or to determine with complete objectivity. Schemes...
... one-way influence in either direction, which I don't believe can be excluded without evidence to the contrary. Another possibility here that cannot be...
... Sorry, I should have caught this earlier. There must be some confusion, as I would never have translated L79.2 like that. For one thing, 79.2 contains the...
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Aug 10, 2008 10:55 pm
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Hi, Mike - Sorry, my mistake. What happened was that I looked back for your version of this saying from a discussion we had earlier this year. In message #7894...
Kevin Johnson
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Aug 12, 2008 12:49 am
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Hello all: While searching through my notes recently, I was struck by Thomas logion #30 and the fact that it refers to "gods" as opposed to that which one...
... [snip] ... I believe Conybeare was an authority on classical Greek; don't know who Badham was. Evidently they flourished at the beginning of the twentieth...
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