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A Proposed Rereading of P.Oxy. 654 line 41 (Gos. Thom. 7)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2006

Simon Gathercole
Affiliation:
University of Aberdeen

Extract

The Coptic text of the Gospel of Thomas is paralleled in three sections by Greek fragments from Oxyrhynchus. P.Oxy. 655, in the Houghton Library at Harvard, consists of small amounts of text, which correspond to sayings 24 and 36–39. P.Oxy. 1, in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, is a fragment of a codex containing sayings 26–33 (cf. also saying 77). This latter exemplar in particular shows that—with some exceptions—there is a good deal of correspondence between the Greek and Coptic versions, and therefore that it is quite possible that substantial portions of the Coptic version of Thomas go back to a Greek original.

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NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

I am particularly grateful to Prof. Larry Hurtado (University of Edinburgh), Dr. Peter Head (University of Cambridge), and Dr. Peter Williams (University of Aberdeen) for their invaluable advice in the preparation of this article, and to Dr. Andrea Clarke and Mr. Michael Boggan of the British Library for their assistance in consulting the manuscript.