
The Gospel of Thomas. Bart Interviews Mark Goodacre on the most important account of Jesus' teachings outside the New Testament
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
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The Redactional Authorial Fingerprint
You simply have to look to see whether the redactional authorial fingerprints of one particular author show up in another author. We both think that Luke and Matthew knew Mark. You can see little things that are characteristic of Mark that are distinctive of Mark's authorial style popping up in Matthew and Luke. So, by analogy, when I'm looking at the gospel of Thomas, I'm saying, am I seeing things that are really characteristic of the way that Matthew writes that are finding their way into Thomas?
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