Many thanks to Jason von Ehrenkrook for letting me know about the publication of this review of my recent book on Thomas over on the Enoch Seminar Online:
Review of Thomas and the Gospels
Tucker Ferda
It's also available as a PDF here. I am really grateful to Tucker Ferda both for the kind things he says about the book and also for the astute critique, to which I will give some thought.
And thanks to Brice Jones for the notice of this video interview with André Gagne about the Gospel of Thomas. It's interesting stuff and I hope to comment on it if I get time:
Hey, is that my book I can see just behind his left ear?!
Hi Mark,
ReplyDeleteThat was a good review, and indicates that your book is indeed very important. Regarding the question of dependence versus familiarity, I wonder why they have to be viewed as mutually exclusive. I feel that a “brief accesses” model is equally plausible. I.e., a potential author, not himself possessing certain documents, may nevertheless have been granted several brief accesses to them, reading and taking a few notes each time. It need not be a matter of either having been granted full access to them for an extended period of time, or being allowed read-only access a few times.
That 140 CE date sounds very reasonable to me.
I certainly disagree with him about the quagmire being uninteresting.
ReplyDeleteI find it far more fruitful to discover the relation between this tradition for lack of a better word and the Synoptics (and John). I honestly don't care much what the whole thing means.
But to each their own, I guess.