Back to commentaries – Pokorný

Returning to my series on commentaries on GosThom, I want to look at: Petr Pokorný’s A Commentary on the Gospel of Thomas Pokorný, Petr, Commentary on the Gospel of Thomas: From interpretations to the interpreted.  T&T Clark Jewish and Christians Texts Series. New York: T&T Clark Ltd, 2009 (hardcover) and 2011 (paperback). Pokorný is Professor of [...]

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Two Thomas-related links

Andrew Bernhard has posted an interview that he and Mike Grondin conducted with Christopher Skinner about his new book John and Thomas: Gospels in Conflict? (Wipf & Stock, 2009) on his gospels.net site. I’ve read the interview, but not the book – one of the downsides of doing graduate study part time is that you [...]

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gospels.net relaunch

Andrew Bernhard relaunched his gospels.net site this week.  It has a new look and in his words: It is now “an online resource dedicated to the Gospel of Thomas and other early Christian gospels” … The design is straightforward. It includes a blog, which will focus on providing the latest news relevant to the study [...]

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Thomas, Gnosticism and WordPress Polls

OK.  So you can do polls in WordPress, and I have worked out how they worked, thanks to 35 people who voted in mine.  I am not sure, however, why one might bother. I can say quite categorically that of the 35 people who voted in my poll, only 11 think that it is a [...]

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Is Thomas gnostic?

It appears that it is now possible to add polls to WordPress blogs (assuming one is able to deal with the tech bits), so I thought I’d do a slightly more serious one than I’ve seen on other blogs in the last day or so. When I tell people I’m doing a PhD on the [...]

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Poster Presentations

Recently, April DeConick updated her website on the Codex Judas Congress to be held at Rice University 13-16 March 2008. All the paper titles are up now and it looks really fascinating, with a wide range of speakers presenting papers – a real who’s who of gnostic studies from a range of perspectives, including Prof [...]

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DeConick’s “Thirteenth Apostle”

As some will be aware, I was working at Rice University when April DeConick’s new book The Thirteenth Apostle was in the final stages of preparation. I proofread the main body of the text and one or two of the appendices that April was preparing. I was impressed enough to want my own copy of [...]

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Wisdom from the past

I was recently taken by something that R McLean Wilson wrote in his very early Studies in the Gospel of Thomas (A R Mowbray and Co, London, 1960). He introduces his consideration of the Gnostic element in Thomas by saying: In the study of an ancient document much depends upon the pre-suppositions with which we [...]

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Hiatus explanation

Over the last week or two I’ve been very busy doing the things I get paid to do (ie being a university chaplain) and thinking about a paper for the upcoming postgraduate conference here at UNE. I’ve also been reading Birger Pearson’s new book Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007). The chaplaincy [...]

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April DeConick on Biblioblogs

April DeConick is the August biblioblogger of the month. In the interview, she talks at length about her views on the way the word Gnosticism is used and also about her takes on the Gospels of Thomas and Judas. Well worth a read.

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