As some of you may know, I am currently working on a book on the relationship between the Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptics. It occurs to me that I am not...
To: Synoptic/GThomas, cc GPG Mark G recently inquired whether Gospel of Thomas studies have taken account of the Farrar Hypothesis (FH). The evidence seems to...
One of the most distinctive Matthean redactional phrases is "kingdom of heaven", 32 times in the Gospel, never in Mark, never in Luke or Acts, often found in...
Just a note that, according to April DeConick's Blog, the Claremont Colleges Libraries have on-line digital copies of the Nag Hammadi codices available here: ...
As I've been working on http://www.gospel-thomas.net/keywords.htm, it occurred to me that, since I've got the sub-logia files, I might as well use them for...
The April total of 42 messages was close to our monthly goal of 45. Aside from myself (15 msgs), the major contributors were George Duffy (8), Rick Hubbard...
Still working on the displays of multi-saying words, I've just today opened up Bentley Layton's Coptic in 20 Lessons, which had been sitting shrink-wrapped on...
Consider these two very similar sayings: GTh 48 Jesus said, "If two make peace with each other in this one house, they will say to the mountain, 'Move away,'...
Sad to say, March was another miserable month like January. There were only 14 messages posted, second lowest March on record. For the year so far, there've...
Last July 16th, I wrote a note to the list titled "Battling Browsers": http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gthomas/message/9455 ... in which one of the major points...
... If I had to choose one, I'd vote for the latter, since I find the wording of Hippolytus' mention of GTh possibly suggestive of a significantly earlier...
... Thanks for this discussion. Just for review: According to the Wikipedia, Origen, c. 185–254 Irenaeus, died c. 202 Hippolytus of Rome (c 170 – c 236) So...
From Griggs, C. Wilfred, Early Egyptian Christianity: From its Origins to 451 C.E. (E.J.Brill, 1991, pp. 173-174, footnotes omitted): When Athanasius returned...
With the voluntary ascendancy of Steven Davies to moderator emeritus, we've added two new active moderators: William Arnal and Jacob Knee. This brings the...
The list bounced back nicely from its January low to an above-average 54* messages in February. That wasn't enough to bring the yearly total (66) up to our...
Over the weekend, I learned that: (1) Irenaeus' Adv.Haer. contains a close parallel to a story in IGT, and that (2) it also contains two distant parallels to...
This new thread is conceptually connected with my previous note about Dick Harfield's Answers.com answer to the question "Why is the Gospel of St. Thomas...
... I thought I had remembered something of this sort, as well, but I can't remember the source. Do you have a source for this, Stephen? Bob Schacht...
Thanks for your clarification, Bob, and I'll go along with your new title; I rather like my own, but I have to admit that it may be too obscure to elicit the...
I got a question for all you "coptophiles". In L29, Jesus marvels at how wealth (=spirit) has come to dwell in poverty (=flesh/body). The Coptic word for...
Story time, folks. This little story, which is all true (to the best of my knowledge), involves GTh, IGT, the site Answers.com, and the individuals Tony Burke...
The pseudonymous NTWrong, whose identity has long been a matter of speculation on biblioblogs, has been running his own b-blog since December, and he is...
Hi Folks, List activity in January was as dismal as the weather in this part of the world. We had only 12 messages for the month (compared with 50 last year),...
To: GThos On: Lk 5:39 From: Bruce Luke 5:39 is a problem for students of Luke. It involves the evidence of Thomas, and the Luke passage in turn is evidence for...
Well, we've started off the new year entirely too quietly. I haven't done my part either, so I thought I'd throw out a few items for discussion. The first is...
A couple days ago, on one of my infrequent checks of changes to the Wikipedia article on GosThom, I ran across a link added by GThomas member and Metalogos...
I'm pleased to be able to report that the past month was our highest- volume December ever (88 messages) , and that the past year (654 msgs) not only exceeded...
To: GPG Cc: GThomas On: Lk 5:39 and the Thomas Scenario From: Bruce [I am cross-posting this GPG note to GThomas, in order to get a wider reaction to the...
