"The time is just after World War II. The place is Upper Egypt not far from the pyramids. A group of camel drivers embroiled in a deadly blood feud is secretly digging for fertilizer along the Nile River near their enemies' village when they uncover an earthenware jar. Believing…
My dissertation is concerned with the types of people that produced and consumed early writings about Jesus, specifically the Gospel of Thomas and 1 Corinthians. I argue that literary forms and features within both texts demonstrate contact with and influence from Graeco-Roman e…
This essay is concerned with the relationship between the Gospel of Thomas and torah observance as is discussed in the Gospel of Thomas’ logia 13, 14, and 53. I contend in this essay that torah observance and the correct interpretation of torah observance is a central theme both…
This dissertation recovers the major redaction of the Gospel of Thomas and connects it specifically to the Syrian Orient. The proposal that the Gospel of Thomas is related to Syria is not new; this dissertation differs in that it contends that it is the latest material within th…
Since the 1946 discovery of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas, the relationship between the sayings found in this collection (almost all of them attributed to Jesus) and the synoptic gospels has been disputed. Some have affirmed that the sayings in the Coptic texts reflect a line of t…