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The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Origins Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies Editors JohannesvanOort&EinarThomassen EditorialBoard j.d.beduhn–a.d.deconick–w.-p.funk i.gardner–s.n.c.lieu–a.marjanen p.nagel–l.painchaud–b.a.pearson n.a.pedersen–s.g.richter–j.m.robinson m.scopello–j.d.turner–g.wurst VOLUME84 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/nhms The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Origins Essays on the Fifth Gospel By StephenJ.Patterson LEIDEN•BOSTON 2013 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Patterson,StephenJ.,1957- TheGospelofThomasandChristianorigins:essaysontheFifthGospel/byStephenJ.Patterson. pagescm.–(NagHammadiandManichaeanStudies;volume84) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindexes. ISBN978-90-04-25084-0(hardback)–ISBN978-90-04-25621-7(e-book) 1.GospelofThomas(CopticGospel)–Criticism,interpretation,etc.2.Apocryphalbooks.3. Churchhistory–Primitiveandearlychurch,ca.30-600.I.Title. 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ForJohnandSophia CONTENTS Acknowledgments...................................................... ix ListofOriginalPublications ............................................ xi ListofAbbreviations.................................................... xiii Introduction:APolarizingArtifact ..................................... 1 1 TheViewfromacrosstheEuphrates ............................... 9 2 JesusMeetsPlato:TheTheologyoftheGospelofThomasand MiddlePlatonism .................................................. 33 3 PlatonismandtheApocryphalOriginsofImmortalityinthe ChristianImaginationorWhydoChristiansHaveSoulsthatGo toHeaven?.......................................................... 61 4 TheGospelof(Judas)ThomasandtheSynopticProblem ......... 93 5 TheGospelofThomasandHistoricalJesusResearch .............. 119 6 WisdominQandThomas.......................................... 141 7 AsceticismintheGospelofThomasandQ:ThePeculiarPractice oftheEarlyJesusTradition......................................... 175 8 TheParableoftheCatchofFish:ABriefHistory(OnMatthew 13:47–50andGospelofThom8).................................... 197 9 ApocalypticismorProphecyandtheProblemofPolyvalence: LessonsfromtheGospelofThomas................................ 211 10 PaulandtheJesusTradition:ItIsTimeforAnotherLook.......... 237 11 TheGospelofThomasandChristianBeginnings .................. 261 WorksCited............................................................. 277 IndexofGospelofThomas ............................................. 297 IndexofAncientSources ............................................... 299 IndexofModernAuthors............................................... 308 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Iamgratefultomanycolleaguesforthevariousopportunitiesandinvita- tions to pursue these essays in scholarly venues, as well as permission to reprintthemtogetherinthisvolume:tothePresidentandFellowsofHar- vardCollegeandtheeditorsoftheHarvardTheologicalReviewforpermis- siontoreprint“TheViewFromAcrosstheEuphrates,”HTR104(2011):411–431 and“PaulandtheJesusTradition:ItIsTimeforAnotherLook,”HTR84(1991): 23–41;toJensSchröterandJosephVerheydenfortheinvitationtooffer“Pla- tonismandtheApocryphalOriginsofImmortalityintheChristianImagi- nationorWhydoChristiansHaveSoulsthatGotoHeaven?”intheEnglish Seminarofthe60thannualColloquiumBiblicumLovanienseandtoUitgev- erijPeeterspermissiontoreprintitfromBETL260;toAndrewGregory,Paul Foster,JohnS.KloppenborgandVerheydenfortheinvitationtoparticipate inthe2008OxfordConferenceontheSynopticProblemwith“TheGospelof (Judas)ThomasandtheSynopticProblem,”andtoÉditionsPeetersforper- missiontoreprintitfromBETL239;toGregSterlingfortheinvitationtooffer “TheGospelofThomasandHistoricalJesusResearch”atthe2003meetingof theCatholicBiblicalAssociationinSanFranciscoandtoÉditionsPeetersfor permissiontoreprintitfromBibliotequeCoptedeNagHammadi,section “Études,”7;toLeoPerdueandBernardBrandonScottfortheinvitationto contribute“WisdominQandThomas”totheJohnGammieFestschriftand toWestminster/JohnKnoxPressforpermissiontoreprintitfromInSearch ofWisdom:EssaysinHonorofJohnG.Gammie; to Leif Vaage and Vincent Wimbushfortheinvitationtoparticipateinthe1996conference,Asceticism and the New Testament in Toronto with the paper “Askesis and the Early JesusTradition,”andtoRoutledgeforpermissiontoreprintitfromAsceti- cismandtheNewTestament;toLouisPainchaudandPaul-HubertPoirierfor theinvitationtoparticipateinthe2003colloquy,L’ÉvangileselonThomas etlestextesdeNagHammadi,TraditionsetconvergencesinQuebecwith thepaper,“TheParableoftheCatchofFish:ABriefHistory(OnMatthew 13:47–50andGospelofThomas8),”andtoÉditionsPeetersforpermission toreprintitfromBibliotequeCoptedeNagHammadi,section“Études,”8; totheeditorsoftheJournalofBiblicalLiteratureforpermissiontoreprint “ApocalypticismorProphecyandtheProblemofPolyvalence:Lessonsfrom theGospelofThomas,”JBL130(2012):795–817;andtoJonAsgiersson,April DeConickandRistoUrofortheinvitationtoofferthepaper“TheGospelof
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