Greetings all … I continue to be amused if not entirely mystified at what I call existent or apparent "quirks" in the Gospel of Thomas as I probe deeper and...
Dear Maurice, As a Syricist, I can help you out here. The term, 'bar nasha' = 'son of man' is idiomatic in Aramaic and unique to that language and its...
This is the third in a series of posts taking a more detailed look at the assertions of Nicholas Perrin in his book THOMAS AND TATIAN, subtitled The...
Thanks for this Don. I really must read this book, but I just don't have time right at the moment. From what you are saying, though, it appears that Perrin's...
Thanks for this, Steven, It's helpful not just here.... Judy -- Rev Judy Redman Uniting Church Chaplain University of New England Armidale 2351 Australia ph:...
... It takes a lot of time. The book is very dense, full of footnotes, and the Syriac writing is hard on these old eyes. ... Yes, I think you are right. I've...
Hi Don, ... Since I am doing a PhD on the parables of the Reign/Kingdom of God in the Gospel of Thomas and their parallels (where they exist) in the synoptics,...
Regular Contributors featured during October (i.e., the five-week period 9/28-11/01) will be Maurice Cormier and Paul Lanier. Those who didn't sign up for...
... From: "Steven Ring" <steven.ring@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:14 PM Subject: Re: [GTh] Son of Man ... Hi...
Thank you Steven and Jack for your thoughts on the "Son of Man". I hope other members will be just as forthcoming as both of you have been while I struggle to...
... From: "jmgcormier" <cobby@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [GTh] Son of Man ... 'There is...
... is to suggest that "Son of Man" as used in the New Testament is generally a way of linking up Jesus of Nazareth with the promised Messiah as announced by...
Hi Paul, It is not clear to me that the interesting 1 Enoch translations from middle Aramaic you quoted, start to move the meaning of the Aramaic idiom 'bar...
... I would say rather that the author has used 'sons of Man' (capital 'M') as a designation for both Jesus and his disciples. In L.86, for example, it surely...
Hi Michael, Syriac and Aramaic nouns don't really take the article anything like the way they do in English, rather in an English translation, the article ...
... Thanks for the information, Steven. No, I wasn't arguing from an English translation. I never do. In Coptic, the letter 'p' attached to a masculine noun ...
... middle Aramaic you quoted, start to move the meaning of the Aramaic idiom 'bar nasha' = 'son of man' away from the semantic range previously indicated,...
... 'M') as a designation for both Jesus and his disciples. In L.86, for example, it surely would have been seen as patently false that people in general don't...
Hi Paul, In the vast literature surrounding the DSS, I remember reading somewhere that the book of Enoch (amongst other DSS messianic works) plays upon the...
... From: "Michael Grondin" <mwgrondin@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [GTh] Re: Son of Man ...
Mike you say ... Isn't this a bit too definitive? I think you need to say that when there is no who-phrase, the p (or t for a feminine noun) *may* function or...
... Agreed. From within Thomas, I'm reminded of L.78.1 ("Why did you come out to the wilderness?"). ... If we're talking about 'p-rwme', then I think 'Man',...
Mike, ... I was actually thinking about son of man, but you're right. I don't think p-rwme can be *a* human being. ... Sorry - what I was trying to say (I'm...
... verbatim ... really ... Hi Judy, I realize your post wasn't really about synoptic-thomas relationship, but I really must respond to what you are saying...
Hi Richard, ... I realise this. What I wanted to do was raise awareness of the ways in which the perspective from which people approach a text, the questions...
... influence how we translate it because, I think, they can influence what we see as pretty clear meanings. Hi Judy, I agree, and would add that two biases...
... ways in ... questions they ... So, if ... different ... passages in ... synoptics and if ... first ... anything ... be "lots of ... want it ... reasonably...
To what sort of healing does Thomas refer? * L.14 If you fast, you will bring sin upon yourselves, and if you pray, you will be condemned, and if you give to...
Richard, ... JR: Indeed. But if you come from within a theological framework that has been built on a particular set of texts and that is likely to be called...
Paul, An observation on your interesting post. The two GT logia you quote also resonate strongly with the Manichaean system, where the highest caste in that...
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