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The Parable of the Wicked Husbandemen: is the Gospel of Thomas Version the Original?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

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1 Strack–Billerbeck, III, 157.

2 Most recently, Crossan, John Dominic, ‘The Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen’, J.B.L. xc (1971), 451–65; andGoogle ScholarJane, E. and Newell, Raymond R., ‘The Parable of the Wicked Tenants’, N.T. XIV (1972), 226–37.Google Scholar

3 Jeremias, Joachim, The Parables of Jesus (rev. ed. London: SCM Press, 1963), pp. 70–7;Google ScholarMontefiore, Hugh, ‘A Comparison of the Parables of the Gospel According to Thomas and of the Synoptic Gospels’, N.T.S. VII (19601961), 236–7; Crossan, pp. 451–61; and Jane E. and Raymond R. Newell, pp. 226–9.Google Scholar

4 Dodd, C. H., The Parables of the Kingdom (London: Nisbet & Co., 1936), pp. 126–30; andGoogle ScholarJeremias, Joachim, Die Gleichnisse Jesu (2nd ed.Zürich: Zwingli Verlag, 1952), pp. 54 f. It should be mentioned that Dodd, Jeremias, and most of their followers in interpreting the parable have re-allegorized the main features of the story.Google ScholarSee Black, Matthew, ‘The Parables as Allegory’, J.B.R.L. XLII (19591960), 283; and Jane E. and Raymond R. Newell, pp. 229–32.Google Scholar

1 Das Gleichnis von den Weingärtnern Mc 12: 1–12 im Lichte der Zenonpapyri und der rabbinischen Gleichnisse’, Z.N.W. LIX (1968), 56. Montefiore, p. 228, recognized that the shorter accounts in the Gospel of Thomas may be the result of compression.Google Scholar

2 Das Verhältnis des Thomas-Evangeliums zur Synoptischen Tradition und zu den koptischen Evangelienubersetzungen (Berlin: Verlag Alfred Töpelmann, 1964), p. 140.Google Scholar

3 See Wilson, R. McL., Gnosis and the New Testament (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1968), pp. 96–7; and also his review of Schrage's book in V.C. xx (1966), 118–23.Google Scholar

4 Parables in the Gospel of Thomas: Oral Tradition or Gnostic Exegesis?C.T.M. XLII (1972), 548–60.Google Scholar

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1 Hennecke, E., New Testament Apocrypha, ed. Schneemelcher, W, trans. Wilson, R McL. (London: Lutterworth Press, 1963), pp. 286 f.;Google ScholarWilson, R McL., Studies in the Gospel of Thomas (London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., 1960), pp. 10 f.Google ScholarEhlers, Barbara, ‘Kann das Thomasevangelium aus Edessa stammen? Ein Beitrag zur Frühgeschichte des Christentums in Edessa’, N.T. XII (1970), 283317, argued against a Syrian provenance for the Gospel of Thomas, but see the response byGoogle ScholarKlijn, A. F. J, ‘Christianity in Edessa and the Gospel of Thomas’, N.T. XIV (1972), 70–7.Google Scholar

2 That the old Syriac was dependent on Tatian, see Burkitt, 11, 234. On harmonistic tendencies and the relation of the Gospel of Thomas and Tatian, see Quispel, G, Makarius, das Thomasevangelium und das Lied von der Perle (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1967), p. 7et passim; and hisCrossRefGoogle Scholar‘L' Evangile selon Thomas et le Diatessaron’, V.C. XIII (1959), 87–117; andGoogle ScholarKlijn, A. F. J, A Survey of the Researches into the Western Text of the Gospels and Acts: Part 11, 1949–1969 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1969), pp. 8 f., who mentioned the tendency of the Gospel of Thomas and the Diatessaron to harmonize Matthew and Luke and the possibility of a curious text of the Gospels in Syria. See also Wilson, Studies in the Gospel of Thomas, pp. 126 f.; and Gnosis and the New Testament, p. 95; andGoogle ScholarGrant, Robert M with Freedman, David Noel, The Secret Sayings of Jesus (London: Collins, 1960), p. 151.Google Scholar