Interviewing Dr. Mark Goodacre about the Gospel of Thomas 

Dr. Goodacre will be giving a lecture along with nine other scholars at a 2-day online conference called: "New Insights into the New Testament." Dr. Bart Ehrman will be moderating. Sign up here!: religionforbreakfast--ehrman.thrivecart.com/nint2023/

44:31 "I've really enjoyed the chat." I've REALLY enjoyed it. What a great video and what a great guest, so knowledgeable of the NT depths and mysteries and such an engaging speaker. Thanks to both of you.

OMG YEEEESSSSESS!!!!!!! Goodacre IS the man. Dale Allison said once that he's "worried" that such smart folks like Goodacre could disagree on the existence of the Quelle source. This guy is not to underestimate, I think he should be regarded in the same status as Géza Vermes or Larry Hurtado.

Wonderful conversation! Thank you for introducing me to so many bible scholars Andrew!

What a likable and approachable scholar! I thoroughly enjoyed this interview, and am going to get one of his books now. Thanks for this great conversation.

I really enjoy when you talk about or interview experts on the gnostic gospels/gnostic movements. It’s how I first came across your channel back when I was a senior in high school back in 2015. Your videos on the topic made me notice that a lot of the games I’ve played growing up, specifically Japanese RPGs, seem to reference or borrow a lot of terms or themes from Gnosticism or Kabbalah. It’s pretty cool, keep up the amazing work man!

I didn't think I'd like the longer format, but I loved this

thank you for sharing the enlightening discussion. keep well~

Thank you.

Thanks for another great video🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Love this. Im a bit confused why there was no possibility of Thomas being a composite material while also not pushing the Q text? (Will likely watch again as it might have been covered but i didn't digest it)

Wow. I didn't this channel existed. Been a long term subscriber of RRB.

I agree with him. Fanfiction isn't done by people who don't like the original. It truly is flattery

Goodacre is the bomb! Great guest

What if all three synoptic gospels are written by the same person? I mean, maybe someone was written the first gospel, he published it, bat after some years, he changed his mind and he decided to re write it, and then he did it again after some time. It could explain a lot things and solve many problems.

I get the hypothesis that Luke got the material formerly known as Q from Matthew , but where did Matthew get it from? Whatever you choose to call it, it is the putative words of Jesus from a source other than Mark.

I wonder how Dr goodacres view on Q fits in with Mark Bilby’s ideas and the gospel of the poor etc

A thought that keeps me up at night is what if these lost documents were found by completely reckless people and destroyed forever before any archaeologists could come in

When the synoptic gospels are compared in their proper order the variations always show the same progression. Most obvious is the ship in a storm progressing farther across the sea before needing the help ofJesus because their faith has grown. And there is the increase in one's light. At first it is small and ultimately grows to shine out the window to be seen by others. A careful comparison shows this progress in every passage.

Now I know where his PhD students got their podcast idea from

This reminds me of a conversation I had recently with someone who was horrified by the Pirate Bible, which is an AI generated spin-off of the King James Version of the Bible, where an AI has translated it into pirate jargon, so for example rather than being the good shepherd, Jesus is the great sea captain who gives his life for the crew. I argued that it's probably better that it exists than not, and I asked them to imagine if a global nuclear war broke out tomorrow, wiping out most of humanity, and the only version of the scriptures that survived was the Pirate Bible, wouldn't that be better than nothing? I didn't mean to actually make a scholarly point, but I guess this actually does apply to history as well, the Bible we have today is the one that survived, but that doesn't mean it hasn't changed. I love the analogy of The Chosen, and how that riffs on the NT scriptures, so you could imagine if suddently a big event created an information crunch, and the only account of the life of Jesus that made it through that event, was a folder of video files on a USB stick, containing The Chosen TV show. We know of such an event pertaining to the Quran, which was the great Quran burning under Caliph Uthman, after which it is hard to determine if what survived was really what Muhammed spoke. It is unfortunate that such things happen, I often think about what amazing treasures of culture were lost in the destruction of the Library of Alexandria..

If the son of man or dwelth amongst man walkthrough the lands, the color of the avatar but it depends the land to inhabit, either citizenship or language to speak it remains a stronghold of its temple (Flesh).

Of course I have no idea which book was written when, but I didn't hear anything persuasive regarding Thomas being more recent. He said that he studied the 4 gospels before reading Thomas, and as he read Thomas he recognized the influence of the others. How does that say anything other than that he read the synoptic gospels first? If he'd grown up Reading Thomas, wouldn't he then have recognized its influence on the other four? When he said his answer to what he'd do if Q was discovered was that he didn't think Q existed, I gave up on the interview. The correct answer to that question should be that, if that happened, he'd have to rethink everything.

So Thomas is Boba Fett. Gets a minor role in the original, then much later on, gets his own book…

Hears the word of God? This is likely a reference to the ability to hear as "the beginning of the response of Jah (יענה) "john" and i think it reveals something about Mary's relationship with God even before the conception of Jesus.

Given Thomas, the new fragment recently published, and Papias’s accounts, I just don’t see how it’s realistic to say that Matthew & probably Luke were not using written sayings texts as sources.

This, again, is a parallel with John: The large fish harken back to why Jesus had a bed of coals prepared for the 153. The 153 vs the slew can be explained by the temple of Dagon and how many men and women were on the first floor vs how many were on the second floor. You must listen with an ear to hear. Begin with THERE were women THERE. And when youve determined the numbers, ask yourself how those numbers on each floor could vary so greatly. I think you will realize why there was a bed of coals. ( this has been an important passage to me for a different reason. The risen king of kings and Lord of Lords was making breakfast for fishermen. I should say had already made the breakfast.)