By John Horman
This booklet uncovers an early number of sayings, known as N, which are ascribed to Jesus and are just like these present in the Gospel of Thomas and in Q, a rfile believed to be a typical resource, with Mark, for Matthew and Luke. within the strategy, the booklet sheds gentle at the literary tools of Mark and Thomas. A literary comparability of the texts of the sayings of Jesus that seem in either Mark and Thomas exhibits that every tailored an prior assortment for his personal goal. Neither Mark nor Thomas regularly provides the unique or earliest type of the shared sayings; therefore, Horman states, every one used and tailored an prior resource. shut verbal parallels among the types in Mark and Thomas exhibit that the resource used to be written in Greek. Horman’s end is this universal resource is N.
This notion is new, and has implications for all times of Jesus learn. earlier study on sayings attributed to Jesus has handled Thomas in a single of 2 methods: both as an self sustaining circulate of Jesus sayings written with out wisdom of the hot testomony Gospels and or as a later piece of pseudo-Scripture that makes use of the recent testomony as resource. This ebook rejects either perspectives.
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The author, however, gives some escape clauses from this rule, judging as false prophets any itinerant “apostles and prophets” who stay around for more than two days or who take more for their journey than the amount of bread required to see them to their next stop or who ask for money (Did. 11:5–6). 7 -'9% % E -) and then eat from it, or prophets who do not act as they teach (Did. 11:8–10). A prophet, however, “who acts toward the kosmic mystery of the Church” (%#Æ ¨+ /)-='# #) ° )?
Taken at face value, the saying contains good, though impractical, advice for anyone who wants to plunder a strong person’s house. 27 Mark deals with these issues in reverse order. The introductory ]], “but,” in 3:27 shows that he uses this saying to qualify the proceeding sentence. Since 3:23–26 is used to show the absurdity of the the sayings common to mark and thomas notion that Jesus might be collaborating with the prince of demons to expel demons, then 3:27 indicates that the procedure is violent, not, as the opponents have insinuated, collaborative.
While Matthew gives the saying as a rhetorical question and uses the infinitive ¨)¥ rather than a participle, his text otherwise differs from Mark’s mainly in word order. In general the text in Thomas for this aphorism is closer to Mark than to Matthew, with small differences, which may come from the translator. As in Mark, so in Thomas the aphorism is given as a statement, not as a question. Th. 35, however, has @nFJitF @nJnaH, “and take it violently,” rather than -q )E ½-#º '%9) , “plunder his possessions,” shared by Mark and Matthew.