Draft Paper on Thomas 50

On the Gospel of Thomas e-list, Andrew Criddle draws attention to this piece:

Lasse Collmann, "Thomas 50 and its context"

This is a post-graduate seminary presentation at Helsinki directed by Ismo Dunderberg whom you may know from his publications on The Gospel of Thomas. The English is a little broken (but I am always lost in admiration for post-grads who write doctoral theses in a second language) and it is still in draft mode, but it's an interesting read for those interested in Thomas. Criddle characterises it this way, "This article draws parallels between the saying and other accounts of questioning of the soul by spiritual powers but emphasises that in some of the closest parallels such as the Jewish Hekhalot material the powers, although potentially dangerous are not intrinsically evil."