Gender-neutral and inclusive language

Mike Grondin notes on the Gospel of Thomas email list that the Patterson and Robinson translation gets a little overenthusiastic in its use of gender-neutral language and I agree that in a translation of parables like the Hidden Treasure and the Assassin with the Sword it makes little sense to use the word “person” when [...]

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New Features on Grondin’s Interlinear site

Mike Grondin has added some new features to his Gospel of Thomas in Context website. You can now access the Gospel of Thomas saying by saying using a split screen format that gives you access to Mike’s interlinear Coptic/English version with notes in one part of the screen, together with the English translations by: Thomas [...]

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On keeping and open mind…

…and being suspicious The other day, one of our international students asked if he could come and talk to me about sending his daughter to the preschool that is part of the local Presbyterian Ladies College. I had no idea why he wanted to talk to me about this, but said to come on over. [...]

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How they got here

The person who found this page because they did a keyword search for “Snodgrass gospel Thomas” is almost certainly looking for: Snodgrass, Klyne. “The Gospel of Thomas: a Secondary Gospel.” Second Century: A Journal of Early Christian Studies 7, no. 1 (1989-1990): 19-38. No idea where you might find it electronically, mind you, but it’s [...]

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Writing for the web vs writing for print

Tim Bulkeley over at SansBlogue has recently posted about writing differently for the web. I started posting a comment but it grew out of all proportion, so I decided to move it here instead. Tim talks about the need to write more simply on-line than for print and I agree. I think we need to [...]

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Gospel of Thomas facsimiles on-line

Mike Grondin has scans of the facsimile edition of the Gospel of Thomas up on his website at http://www.geocities.com/mwgrondin/splitv.htm. They’re in a split screen format, so you can display his interlinear version of the text on one half of the screen and the facsimile of the text on the other half and compare them. You [...]

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Two or three books on parables

Several weeks ago, I ordered three books on parables. They arrived in today’s mail. One, Hear Then the Parable by Bernard Brandon Scott, was published in 1989 and is probably well known to people who are interested in parables, so I don’t propose to comment on it. The other two are more recent. The book [...]

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New from Eisenbrauns

Eisenbrauns have got together a fascinating selection of specials for the beginning of April. Being a keen cook with feminist leanings, I was particularly interested in Hostess of Heaven: A Critical Reading (with Recipes) from the Book of Jeremiah.  Unfortunately, unlike their usual offerings, the price for this book is a bit outside my price [...]

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