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Author Horman, John, 1940-

Title A common written Greek source for Mark and Thomas / John Horman
Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in Christianity and Judaism series ; 20
Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 20
Contents N : A New Greek Source. The Scope of N -- The Sayings Common to Mark and Thomas -- Other Candidates for N -- The Setting of N in Early Christianity -- Conclusions -- Excursus. 1. Sayings of Jesus and Narrative about Jesus in the Early Church -- 2. Esoteric and Exoteric Sayings and Settings in Mark -- 3. Narrative Frameworks for Sayings in Mark -- 4. Structural Markers Indicating the Use of Sources in Thomas -- 5. Thomas and the "Gnostics."
Summary This book uncovers an early collection of sayings, called N, that are ascribed to Jesus and are similar to those found in the Gospel of Thomas and in Q, a document believed to be a common source, with Mark, for Matthew and Luke. In the process, the book sheds light on the literary methods of Mark and Thomas. A literary comparison of the texts of the sayings of Jesus that appear in both Mark and Thomas shows that each adapted an earlier collection for his own purpose. Neither Mark nor Thomas consistently gives the original or earliest form of the shared sayings; hence, Horman states, each used and adapted an earlier source. Close verbal parallels between the versions in Mark and Thomas show that the source was written in Greek. Horman's conclusion is that this common source is N. This proposal is new, and has implications for life of Jesus research. Previous research on sayings attributed to Jesus has treated Thomas in one of two ways: either as an independent stream of Jesus sayings written without knowledge of the New Testament Gospels and or as a later piece of pseudo-Scripture that uses the New Testament as source. This book rejects both views
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index
Notes John Horman received his Ph. D. from McMaster University in 1973 and is an independent scholar from Waterloo, ON. He has published in Novum Testamentum, and this is his first book
Includes text in Greek and Coptic
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Subject Jesus Christ -- Words
SUBJECT Jesus Christ. fast (OCoLC)fst00040116
Bible. Mark -- Criticism, Textual
Gospel of Thomas (Coptic Gospel) -- Criticism, Textual
Bible. Mark -- Language, style
Gospel of Thomas (Coptic Gospel) -- Language, style
Bible. Mark. fast (OCoLC)fst01892928
Gospel of Thomas (Coptic Gospel) fast (OCoLC)fst01357072
Evangelium Thomae gnd
Bibel Markusevangelium gnd
Subject Synoptic problem.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Jesus, the Gospels & Acts.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
Synoptic problem.
Words of Jesus Christ.
Literarkritik
Synoptische Frage
Textgenese
Textstruktur
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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