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...
Hi Rick, Thanks for your offer. Send me a first draft offlist and we'll see if we can come up with something that shows the structure at a glance. As for...
Hi Rick, Thanks for your interest. The method is generally useful for data mining and so I wanted to see what it indicated for Thomas. Also the software is...
Hi Mike, Ah, a lucky guess about "The Gospel of Thomas" being on two lines at the end. If it's a lucky guess about #10 being 4 lines, everything comes out...
Although I simply do not have time to participate in the fascinating discussions that have been on-going here over the past several weeks, I DO try to read as...
... Well, L.10 doesn't take up 4 lines. In fact, it has only one more word ('until-it-burns') - on line 69. You can check these things out yourself, BTW. Go to...
... I think you may have hit on something here, Rick. It seems to me that methodologies involving too much subjectivity (my complaint about the JS) will always...
... Hi Rick, Thanks for the Ginza Rba cite on "Seek and Find." I am wondering if you believe the original source for the "Seek an Find" sayings cluster is the...
... methodology and ... though ... criticism ... achieve "answers" ... to see ... I have to agree with DeConick's agnostic stance to the historical Jesus....
NOTE: I should point out that for some bizarre reason my response to Don Traxler’s note simply will not go through as a simple reply, so I have had to create...
Hi Richard- Permit me to respond to one or two of your excellent observations: ... RICK: And so the question that comes to mind is, "What can we examine?"...
Hi Rick, I think that for the most part we are in agreement. Let me just comment on a few things. ... Well, ... beginning ... texts ... also ... official ... ...
... Hello Paul, ... Seems I remember Mike saying the single saying and short saying blocks were important for some reason, and perhaps because he suspected...
... wrote:... Hi Mike, I think the bottom line here, and what's encouraging, is that using completely different systems, we both think #71 is a break point and...
Hi Richard Let’s start with this first (I’ll address more in another note, later): Rick: …. we are looking at writers who had an "agenda" behind their ...
... Well, I can tell you right now that there ARE similar potential problems. Still, I wouldn't want to not try because of that. For one thing, the results...
... I'm genuinely not surprised there are problems. Nevertheless, as you say, it is worth a try. I sincerely wish you good luck. Rick Hubbard Humble Maine...
... Of course I agree, and have felt this way since first noticing the separation of L.6a from L.14, long before I even knew anything about Coptic. I still...
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