The Gnostic #1 is being discounted by Amazon, selling at $10.80 instead of $12. It qualifies for super saver shipping, so is you buy $14.20 worth of other...
March was a bad month for our group, even though we managed to do better than our benchmark group, XTalk. We had 17 messages for the month, the second lowest ...
Just wanted people to know that I have been appreciating the efforts of RCs to engender conversation but have been in deep lurk mode for quite a few months now...
Hi Judy, My take on the latter part of your note is that while I don't expect much academic participation here, I would hope that this would be a place where ...
... Hi Judy, I deeply respect and appreciate your concern here. It's one of the reasons I decided against an academic career in the church. I would argue that...
"But I have said that whoever among you becomes a child will recognize the Kingdom and will become greater than John." - GTh46.2 SV, but with 'Kingdom'...
... As well it should be. (Better yet, avoid the SV!) Here, in addition to the SV's usual clumsy substitute for 'kingdom', the word 'child' isn't right, IMO....
Perhaps this is a bit off the topic you are discussing, but what interests me in this saying is whether it reflects and confirms the belief in a a realized...
... But, Ron, if the author of GLk thought of 17:20-1 the way you suggest, why would the immediately following passage (17:22-37) prophesy the very things you...
Hi Mike, Meant to get back to you earlier on this but I've just got my Ham Radio Licence this week and have been busy to-day setting up, hooking up and tuning...
... Thanks for this, Mike. The Coptic in L.37 supports your preference for translating kouei (BM#164) as "small." Luckily this saying contains three words...
... Hi Ron, Mike: I think there are two other possibilities that explain, in general, why Thomas tends toward some flavor of realized eschatology, but Luke...
Ron - I agree with you that the GTh logia that seem to refer to end-times are few and far between. In fact, I don't think L61.1 is the strongest example, ...
... Thanks for noting that important point about Greek Thomas, Paul, but Coptic Thomas occasionally has "kingdom of the heavens" also. ... Other than that, the...
... Woops! You're right. L.114 is very late but there are other instances of "kingdom of heaven" and "kingdom of God." I will need to rearrange my position! ...
Hi Mike, Thanks for the thoughtful response, Mike. I agree [L.57] is a stronger example, and when first I encountered it, I designated it as a clear...
I haven't been reading blogs regularly lately, but I was browsing April DeConick's this evening and came across two recent items of personal interest. One was...
... Having given my own question some thought, I'd like to propose a tentative answer to it. Briefly put, it's that Abrasax/Abraxas was associated with fate,...
I'm pleased to announce a special event to be hosted on our list in May. Stephen Carlson has graciously volunteered to post excerpts from his upcoming SBL...
Elaine Pagels, in her Introduction (June 23, 1995) to Thich Nhat Hanh's Living Buddha, Living Christ (1995: Riverhead Books), notes "resonances" between GTh...
Hi Paul, Thanks for introducing this topic to the list. Elaine Pagel’s remarks in her introduction to Thich Nhat Han’s book are, if anything, understated....
Mike, Thanks so much for organising this - it sounds fascinating. And for keeping this list going and on track for ten years!! Congragulations. Judy -- Rev...
Hi Rick, Thank you for your incisive comments. I am still looking up what is known about Buddhist scriptures before the common era, but the short answer seems...
Many thanks for your note, Judy. I see that you've now posted a fine entry to your blog: http://judyredman.wordpress.com/ Thanks also to Mark Goodacre for a...
A couple of additional notes: 1. I didn't discover until this morning that Loren Rosson had also posted an entry in his blog "The Busybody" Monday. See: ...
Fellow Thomas scholars, Thanks for all your interest in this project, which Mike and I discussed as a way of not only promoting this mailing list but...
One last note on this subject before we move on. In the blog entry cited earlier, DeConick wrote as follows: "In Greek numerology each letter is associated...
This is the first installment of excerpts from a paper I'll be giving at this SBL on Origen's use of Thomas. My goal is to have the paper in as good as shape...
There were 27 messages posted to our group in April. This is definitely on the low side, being just one more than our lowest April in the 2001-08 period....
This next excerpt concerns the what Origen explicitly had to say about Thomas. ... The only place where Origen mentioned the Gospel of Thomas by name occurs in...
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