Happy New Year to all! I'm pleased to announce that Richard Godijn has agreed to join Paul Lanier as featured Regular Contributors for January. (Don Traxler...
I've just now posted a test page to the interlinear section of my GTh website, and hereby solicit offlist feedback, good, bad, or indifferent. The page is for...
Hi all, Let me start by thanking Mike for the opportunity to post here as a regular contributor for the month of January. I am very glad to do so. I'd like to...
Hi folks, It looks like Kirby's lost sheep have returned to the fold: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com http://www.earlyjewishwritings.com I have not...
The teachings of 1 Peter 5:1-10 appear to reinterpret Thomas Sayings 2,3,4, and 7. Moreover the thematic order in 1 Peter 5:1-10 follows closely that of GTh...
... Hi Mike, That is very cool! I see in L.12 that the Coptic for 'disciples' is Greek, Does this mean Egyptian has no equivalent term, or is there another...
... Hi Paul, Well, I assume that Coptic has a word for 'student' or 'disciple', though I don't know what it is offhand. Of course, we have no way of knowing...
It appears K. C. Hanson has a translation-in-progress of Gospel of Thomas: http://www.kchanson.com/PTJ/thomas.html I don't see anything on this in the...
... Hi Paul - Just to let you and others know that Hanson's online translation has been sitting incomplete since I first looked at it many years ago. I don't...
Paul, Your cautions at the end of this piece re: the careful analysis needed to argue for thematic parallels is absolutely correct, it is too easy to find...
This was to have been a fairly straight-forward report on the latest results of my study of the use of Greek in Coptic GTh, but it took an unexpected turn last...
In my previous post I mentioned I would start my discussion of the relationship between Thomas and the Synoptics by dealing with Patterson's important work....
I've written before about the 24 text-blocks in Coptic GTh, which are blocks of text beginning at the left margin of a line and ending at the right margin of a...
Logia 14 and 31 mention healing, but neither specifies exactly what it means or how to do it. However healing seems vital to Thomas. It is what a disciple...
One of my weekly luncheon buddies mentioned palindromes the other day, and this brought me back to the problem of constructing an adequate description of the...
Dear Folks in the gThomas eGroup: The online Metalogos edition of the Nag Hammadi Gospels (www.metalog.org <http://www.metalog.org/> ) is perhaps completed at...
Last week (#8592) I presented LL. 1-4 as introducing the basis for healing in Thomas. As I see it, eighteen sayings illustrate a pattern of ahierarchical and...
Using the rather strict Jesus Seminar list, there are 25 Thomas sayings with a Mark parallel. They are pretty much evenly spread out except for a big gap of 29...
Hi Don, The gap is between #66 and #96. If we include the Jesus Seminar Cf.'s, it's between #71 and #96 with 31 Mark parallels, and with a greater than 99%...
Greetings all …. Over the last while, I have been trying to catalogue what I consider to be examples of "confusing doctrine" in the Gospel of Thomas, and I...
Hi Paul, I think you're really on to something. I'm convinced statistical analysis of the sayings in Thomas, and to a lesser extend in the synoptics (and...
(I noticed Paul has written about "Seek and you will find" and would like to point out it comes from the Mandaeans/John the Baptist.) Introduction The term...
... Hi Maurice, I'll take a shot at it. ... GThomas has two kinds of poverty, being financially poor and being poor in understanding. In that scheme, his...
It's good to see an increase in activity as we enter the new month, since January was definitely below-par - the first since this program was initiated. The...
... L.71 ("I will destroy this house ...") is indeed an important seam in what appears to be a logical structure to Coptic Thomas, based on its 24 blocks of...
Other striking non-random sortings of the parallels in Thomas are: 1. The Jesus Seminar Five Gospels parallels... Before and including saying #71, there's 15...
Hi Mike, I'll help you with the graphics. The least I can do, considering how much you've done to help us all approach truth about the Gospel of Thomas. I...
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