Gathercole on the composition of Thomas (4)

Chapter 4 is entitled “Positive evidence for a Greek-language origin” and in it, Gathercole addresses six areas: The material evidence of the manuscripts: Here, Gathercole says that we have no manuscript evidence of a Semitic version of Thomas but there are three fragments of  Greek copies. Although he notes that an argument from silence needs [...]

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Gathercole on the composition of Thomas (3)

In Chapter 3, Gathercole works through 77 areas in the Coptic text of Thomas that have been proposed by various authors as Semitisms. He looks at those identified by Quispel and Guillaumont and listed by DeConick in her The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation but adds a number of others presented elsewhere in the [...]

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Gathercole on the composition of Thomas (2)

The first section in Gathercole’s book deals with the original language of Thomas and consists of four chapters. This post will deal with the first two. In chapter 1, which is very short, he outlines the various theories that have been advanced about the language in which Thomas was originally written. When Puech announced the [...]

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Marcion (on-line Crum) update

Coming out from a deep lurk caused by my taking on a new short term research contract at the same time as I have had marking commitments for the Earliest Christianity subject I taught into this semester… Milan Konvicka recently emailed me to let me know that he has updated the Marcion database which includes [...]

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Typing Coptic – 2

Some months ago, I posted some information about typing Coptic on a PC (using Unicode fonts) but recently Andy Finke has done some further investigation and has been posting his results in the comments section of that post. This post pulls out the relevant information about  getting a functional Coptic keyboard in whatever version of [...]

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Marcion resource 3

More tips from Milan, moved up from the comments: in any opened text you can use the popup menu for easier searching in dictionaries in the tree view of coptic dictionary you can raise a popup menu and use the resolve function to create all possible morphs of a word look at this new video [...]

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More on commentaries – Kasser

Back in January, I began a series of reviews of commentaries on GosThom and managed to do two.  Here is a third and I hope to do the rest over the next few weeks. Rodolphe Kasser’s L’Evangile selon Thomas Rodolphe Kasser, L’Evangile selon Thomas: présentation et commentaire théologique: Bibliothèque théologique; (Neuchatel: Editions Delachaux & Niestlé, [...]

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More on the Marcion Coptic resource

Milan Konvicka has posted information in the comments of my last post that I think merits putting in a post of its own. He has produced two instructional videos to help people to use the Marcion program. You can find them at: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=instructional+video+marcion&aq=1 The first one demonstrates how to import and index the libraries that [...]

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Another new Coptic resource

Recently Paterson Brown from Metalogos posted information on the Gospel of Thomas e-list about a new electronic Coptic resource. It is called Marcion (no, I don’t know why) and includes a searchable version of Crum’s Coptic Dictionary, a searchable Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek Lexicon, and Henry Tattam’s A Compendious Grammar of the Egyptian Language (1863 edition) as [...]

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Sterling’s “Coptic Paradigms”

On the strength of Bill Arnal’s review in RBL, I ordered a copy of Gregory E Sterling’ s Coptic Paradigms – A Summary of Sahidic Coptic Morphology (2008, Peeters, Leuven). It arrived today and after a quick look, I am impressed. In 95 pages, Sterling has produced a really nice summary of Sahidic Coptic morphology [...]

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