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The Jesus' Wife Chronicles *** now including latest on Ariel Sabar's Veritas ***

"The most complete rundown of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife controversy ..."

Christopher D. Cantwell and Hussein Rashid, Religion, Media, and the Digital Turn , 2015.

"There is a substantial and growing body of evidence that Gos. Thom. is not what it appears to be."

... M.W. Grondin, Sep, 2019

A challenge to conventional textual analysts: Why did they do this?



105 occurrences of the nomina sacra IC/IHC 210 (Greek numeric value of 'IC') 1050 (Greek numeric value of 'Thomas') 500 occurrences of Copto-Greek words and names 2400 letters in those occurrences 16800 letters in main body of text sans prologue (=80*210, 7*2400)

The Prologue to the Gospel of Thomas as "The Stone the Builders Rejected" (200405, Academia)

.... (Proposed solution to a dilemma entailed by the 16800-letter size of Gos.Thom. sans prologue.)

.... "Another intriguing analysis!" (Alexandros Tsakos, University of Bergen)

.... (Expanded 200517 to include commentary from the Academia feedback session)

Letter-Counts of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas and Its Sayings (200122, Academia)

.... (The result of a recently-completed revision to my calculation of the size of Gos.Thom.,

.... conducted in conjunction with the transcription-comparisons of Martijn Linssen,

.... challenges the adequacy of conventional views and methods, in that it suggests

.... that the number of letters in the tractate was intentionally and carefully controlled.)

My 2019 Gospel of Thomas Writings: Purposes and Reception (200112, Academia)

The Hidden World in the Coptic Gospel of Thomas (190815)

.... (the solution to the organization problem)

.... "I'm not sure what to say except "wow!" and to applaud both your attention to detail

.... from the minutest level to that of big picture and overall structure, and your creative

.... and insightful suggestion for how to interpret those details as a whole!" (James McGrath)

The Hidden Father in the Coptic Gospel of Thomas (190919)

.... (a companion piece to "Hidden World")

The above links are to academia.edu. Use links below if unable to download or print from there.

.... "World"..."Father" (but note that links within the papers are to academia.edu as well)

Thomas-Related Writings of myself and other GTS members at Academia (Aug, 2019)

Gospel of Thomas Studies on Facebook (Nov, 2015)

An Interlinear Translation of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas

... (with links to sites about the Greek P.Oxy. fragments)

... go directly to split-screen page (best view)

A Concordance for the Coptic Gospel of Thomas (May 2013) ... doublets (Jan, 2017)

The Greek-Coptic Differences and How DeConick Handles Them (new March 2015)

... DeConick's Thomas Color-Coded (Tim Staker) Linear Format Columnar Format

Earliest Testimonia to GTh (Hippolytus on the Naassenes) (new May 2016)

Other English Translations of NH Codex II Texts

... (see Op-Ed piece below about Meyer-Patterson translations)

Selected Gospel of Thomas Books in English, 1983-2012

Selected Resources for the Study of Nag Hammadi Codex II

The Nag Hammadi Library (new page Jan 2014)

Copto-Greek Number System, Fonts & Transliterations

Brief Notes on the Greek Number System and Early Christianity (Jan '16)

The Nomina Sacra of the Gospel of Thomas and Their Numbers (Sep '17)

Coptic Unicode Fonts and Keyboards

Links to Other Sites, Blogs, and Online discussion groups

The Gospel of Thomas in Online Videos and Podcasts (Oct 2013)

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