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...
A new and important blog has had some very complimentary things to say the last several days. The blog is 'gospels.net' and is run by my long-time internet...
This next excerpt reflects on some methodological concerns of analyzing Origen's use of Thomas. My next posting after this will be on Monday. ... Due to the...
... Hi Stephen, Could you explain a little bit about what's going on here? I.e., what are "the Greek catenae extracted from the homily" (would that be the...
... Origen's homilies on Luke have mainly survived in a a Latin translation by Jerome. It has also partially survived in Greek, in the form of "catenae" or...
... As you can tell, I don't know much about this, but if you don't mind, I have a followup question based solely on trying to follow your reasoning. If...
... From: Michael Grondin To: gthomas@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 9:27 PM Subject: Re: [GTh] Origen and Thomas 3: Methodology ... As you can...
... No, the statement is in Jerome's translation. I'm just arguing that it wasn't something Jerome added during his translation. Stephen -- Stephen C. Carlson...
Thanks, Andrew. That clears up that question nicely, to my mind. (Confirmation from Stephen just came in, but I was already quite sure that it would be...
Stephen, Thanks for your postings. I am finding them interesting. As I read this your treatment of whether Origen had only heard about Thomas or had actually...
... Great question, Judy. As we'll see in the next excerpt, Origen explicitly said that he "read" the source. Stephen -- Stephen C. Carlson Ph.D. student,...
In this excerpt, we are looking at one of the places where Origen quoted the Gospel of Thomas. The next excerpt will be on Thursday. ... Perhaps the clearest...
Our fellow-moderator Andrew Criddle doubles as a guest writer on Stephen Carlson's blog Hypotyposeis. This last Saturday, he posted a typically well-reasoned...
... From: Michael Grondin To: gthomas@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 7:51 PM Subject: [GTh] Origen and Spiritual Meaning I think Andrew would...
In this excerpt, we are looking at where Origen quoted the same place in the Gospel of Thomas a second time. The next excerpt will be on Monday. ... This...
... snip ... ... Hello Stephen .... Could you please clarify a bit of a puzzle (for me, at least) re Origen, his Homily on Luke, and the dating of Nag Hammadi...
Mark Goodacre http://ntweblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/gospel-of-thomas-bibliography.html has a post about a Wayback Machine copy of an old Gospel of Thomas Site ...
In this excerpt, we are looking at a bit from the Gospel of Thomas that Origen rejected. ... Another example of Origen's use of the Gospel of Thomas is so ...
That's good timing. I was trying to revive my ancient bibliography and Greek papyri web pages for a while now, I hadn't thought of the web archive. I had lost...
... Hello again Stephen .... Interesting that the "original editors" (???) of Coptic Thomas would seemingly find $WNE to be a probable corruption. Do we have...
Sytze, This is great! I have a significant bibliography of Gospel of Thomas related works and would be happy to contribute. There have been quite a few...
Thanks for the nice comments and quick updates on your NT Gateway site and NT Blog, Mark. I've been following the discussions of this group for many years with...
Wow. I'm stunned. Mark is quite right that I'm interested in seeing an interactive online Thomas bibliography. We had been discussing the matter, but I don't...
... By "original editors" I mean the scholars who first published the Coptic text in the late 1950s. The reason why scholars think the text is corrupt is that...
... Hi Andrew, The above online article got me to thinking. Among other things, the author (Henry Karlson) states that: "His teacher, St Clement of Alexandria,...
In this excerpt, which will be the last of the excerpts I'm posting here, we are looking at a saying from the Gospel of Thomas that also has a parallel in the...