To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Stigmata
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:28:19 +0200
At 10.48 13/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
>At 07:28 AM 10/13/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>> they were indeed all from Thomas. in fact there was a lengthy
discussion of
>>> this on the Gospel of Thomas list.
>>
>>I thought the Gospel of Thomas was in Coptic???
>
>It was. But some believe that originally it was written in Aramaic,
>translated into Greek, and then into Coptic.
Yes, healthy fragments were found in Greek at Oxyrhynchus (Hunt & Davies)
before they'd ever made the connection with GThom. and those fragments were
dated very early, but with the Nag Hammadi discovery the Oxyrhynchus
fragments suddenly got redated.
Nothing really to suggest any earlier language though.