Sunday, July 22, 2007

The Gospels Revisited - The Jesus Seminar

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I meet Course students who don't have the familiarity with the Christian tradition to appreciate some of the comments in A Course In Mir...
Sunday, July 15, 2007

Marvin Meyer's Gospel of Thomas

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Marvin Meyer's translation is without any doubt the leading translation of the Thomas Gospel and is available in numerous editions, both...
Saturday, July 14, 2007

Thomas one of Five? Ask the Jesus Seminar.

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 This has to be one of my favorite editions of the Gospels currently on the market in English. This book is thorough and complete, and it re...

Elaine Pagels: Re-discovering Thomas

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Active interest in the Thomas Gospel dates from the 1890's, pursuant to the discovery of the first Greek fragments of it in the Oxyrrhyn...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Jean-Yves Leloup translates the Gospel of Thomas

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This book is a gem, and the introduction by Jacob Needleman makes it even more so. Originally published in 1986 in French by Éditions Albin...
Saturday, July 7, 2007

Parallel text: The Thomas Gospel in French, Haitian Creole and English

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This is a wonderful edition to my taste for somewhat personal reasons. I have learned to greatly respect the profound religiosity of my fri...
Friday, July 6, 2007

Stevan Davies Translates the Thomas Gospel

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The Shambala Library edition of Stevan Davies ' translation is absolutely beautiful in form and in content. It is somewhat unfortunate t...