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[–] OctopusKurwa@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow I think I found Bart Ehrman's Lemmy account lol.

In seriousness though, that was a great read thank you.

I wouldn't blame the scholars who misclassified it too much. If I read it without knowing anything about it I would probably make the same mistake because secret knowledge is a big focus in it.

Do you reckon Thomas's author had access to Q ?

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don't really think there is a Q, and instead think that Luke had access to proto-Thomas and Matthew had access to both Marcion's Luke and proto-Thomas, with a final redactional layer of Luke-Acts potentially having access to Matthew in turn.

The Synoptic Problem is a huge swamp, but I'm a big fan of considering redactional layers for at least Mark and Luke.

Most Biblical scholars didn't really want to give Thomas any credibility early on, and that combined with the tautological dating of anything with an apparent whiff of Gnosticism to the 2nd century led to scholars bending over backwards to ignore it in favor of other theories.

But there's a notable overlap between Thomas and the letters from Paul to Corinth including reference to things they have written or are saying (who he later accused of accepting a different version of Jesus from what he offered), and there seems to be direct dependency of both Luke and Matthew on it here and there, and now we've even seen with Oxy 5575 that in the 2nd century sayings unique to Thomas were being woven together with Synoptic sources as if of similar credibility.

I think attitudes about this text will change over time, but it will still take a while as it's a slow moving domain and there's a lot of legacy bias against the work.

Edit: Also, the secretive parts of Thomas are less than you might think and I suspect are a 2nd century layer added on to the core work which was also when the association with 'Thomas' was added. For example, all the "two ears to hear" would indicate public statements given saying 33 (even more anti-secret than the Synoptic parallels) in the work, not secret sayings. The secrecy stuff was likely reactionary to the canonical claims of secret explanations, i.e. "no, we have secrets too!"

[–] OctopusKurwa@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"I don't think there is a Q"

Maybe this is Mark Goodacre's account instead of Ehrman.

It seems to me more likely that there's more of the historical Jesus in Thomas than there is in John and I wouldn't be surprised at all if it was written earlier.

Thanks for the read. I'm someone who only recently started reading about early Christianity recently and it absolutely blows my mind how diverse the theology was so early.

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe this is Mark Goodacre's account instead of Ehrman.

Goodacre subscribes to Matthean priority over Luke, and also thinks Thomas is late (though if he were to apply his own methodology of editorial fatigue to Matthew 13:43 vs Thomas 57 it would indicate at least the core of Thomas predates Matthew).

And yes, it's really a shame Lemmy doesn't have an equivalent of /r/AcademicBiblical. I spent a lot of time there and it was a very fun community.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Having read through all of this I would emplore you to start that community, it was enthralling to read, and I appreciate you putting so much effort into your comments