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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. BS2860.T52P3842013 229'.8–dc23 2013021182 Thispublicationhasbeentypesetinthemultilingual“Brill”typeface.Withover5,100 characterscoveringLatin,IPA,Greek,andCyrillic,thistypefaceisespeciallysuitablefor useinthehumanities.Formoreinformation,pleaseseewww.brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN0929-2470 ISBN978-90-04-25084-0(hardback) ISBN978-90-04-25621-7(e-book) Copyright2013byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,GlobalOriental,HoteiPublishing, IDCPublishersandMartinusNijhoffPublishers. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recordingorotherwise,withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillNV providedthattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter, 222RosewoodDrive,Suite910,Danvers,MA01923,USA. Feesaresubjecttochange. 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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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The essays collected in The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Origins offer a series new chapters in the history of Christianity's first century. Stephen J. Patterson, whose work on the Gospel of Thomas has circulated widely for more than two decades, argues that taking this new source seriously will r
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