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...
In logion 73, Jesus said "pray to the Lord". And then, in logion 74, the one who heard the saying pray to the Lord with the prayer beginning the vocative...
Mike, While on lunch break I thought I might pose a question to you and those with a bit of competence in Coptic. I've been looking at your interlinear...
I've been wondering if the mysterious Saying 7 'Jesus said "Blessed is the lion that the man will devour so that the lion becomes a man. And cursed is the man...
Hi, I haven't posted here for quite a qhile, so I hope you'll forgive thsi quick ad. Bardic Press has just published Voices of gnosticism, a collection of...
What are the characteristic redactional themes in Thomas? Davies, in "Mark's Use of the Gospel of Thomas," identifies "making the two (cop. SNAY) one" (cop....
This is totally unrelated to the Gospel of Thomas, but I can't resist reporting that I ran across this mind-numbing statistic relating to the Hebrew Bible*: ...
... At the outset, it should be pointed out that canonical Jude doesn't use the name 'Thomas', nor hint that the supposed (but not actual) author "Jude" was...
Logion 64 & Luke 14:15-24 (* Matthew 22:1-10) I jot down some words even though you have known already. ^^ - In GTh, the reasons for that they can't come to...
BRUCE: I think the Funk categories noted by Rick are capable of simpler statement, but simple or diffuse, I doubt they are helpful. The names "secondary" and...
Of identifying parallels there is no end (or so it seems). Toward the end of a fairly extended thread on the topic of "Paralleomania" a few weeks ago I began...
new version of marcion is uploaded, together with apocryphon of john. maybe someone will help me with fixing errors, i have not mastered coptic at acceptable...
There's a Facebook group established fairly recently (Sep 1st) called "New Testament Scholarship Worldwide", which now has over a thousand members, including...
Logion 67, translation: "The one who knows All, but is lacking one he has been lacking All." I think the "one" means the knowledge that the keystone rejected...
November was a sub-par month for the list (21 messages), but it scarcely matters, since the total number of messages so far this year (566) surpasses our...
Google Alerts has drawn my attention to a nice article written by Erik Reece which originally appeared in Harper's in Dec, 2005, but which has just been posted...
To: GPG Cc: Synoptic, Crosstalk, GThomas On: Alpha Christianity: An Invitation From: Bruce As some will know, but I think it may be proper to mention...
Bibliobloggers Tony Burke and Rob Bowman have had an interesting exchange lately on Th.114. It started with Burke's article in SBL forum titled "Heresy Hunting...
