{"id":454,"date":"2010-09-08T22:08:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T05:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2010-09-09T14:17:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T21:17:49","slug":"my-twenty-odd-gospel-of-thomas-translations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"My twenty-odd Gospel of Thomas Commentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our seminarians and I got talking about \u00c2\u00a0different translations of the Gospel of Thomas (GoT). I realized I own about twenty different GoT&#8217;s. There are so many cool commentaries and several powerhouse translations-with-commentaries! \u00c2\u00a0My faves are Tau Malachi, Jean-Yves Leloup, and Miller&#8217;s newish one. I have Elaine Pagel&#8217;s, the only GoT commentary by a woman, as far as I know. [UPDATE: Oops, forgot April DeConick&#8217;s GoT translation-and-commentary, see comments below&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list on Amazon of all the many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=gospel+of+thomas&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;ih=3_1_4_2_2_1_0_0_3_1.40_24&amp;fsc=-1\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel of Thomas translations<\/a> available. I own about every other one of these&#8230;&lt;laugh&gt;\u00c2\u00a0It has turned into a &#8220;collection&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But you know a favorite I must mention doesn&#8217;t even have GoT in the title, yet is indeed Thomas with short pithy zen commentaries on each verse. &#8216;Tis a little hardback book, slightly bigger than pocket-size. I love it. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1556434588\/esoterictheologi\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Zen: The Essential Teachings of Jesus Christ<\/a> by [Sophiologist] Robert Powell.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/51hjiskLoxL._BO2204203200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-clickTopRight35-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-458\" title=\"51hjiskLoxL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/51hjiskLoxL._BO2204203200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-clickTopRight35-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/51hjiskLoxL._BO2204203200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-clickTopRight35-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/51hjiskLoxL._BO2204203200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-clickTopRight35-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our seminarians and I got talking about \u00c2\u00a0different translations of the Gospel of Thomas (GoT). I realized I own about twenty different GoT&#8217;s. There are so many cool commentaries and several powerhouse translations-with-commentaries! \u00c2\u00a0My faves are Tau Malachi, Jean-Yves Leloup, and Miller&#8217;s newish one. I have Elaine Pagel&#8217;s, the only GoT commentary by a woman, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=454\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My twenty-odd Gospel of Thomas Commentaries<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}