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The Lilies of the Field: Saying 36 of the Gospel of Thomas and Secondary Accretions in Q 12.22b–31

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2001

JAMES M. ROBINSON  and
CHRISTOPH HEIL
JAMES M. ROBINSON
Affiliation:
The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 91711–6178, USA
CHRISTOPH HEIL
Affiliation:
Universität Bamberg, Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät, D-96045 Bamberg, Germany
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Abstract

An archaic form of the sayings collection Free from Anxiety like Ravens and Lilies (Q 12.22b–31) is to be found in P. Oxy. 655, Gospel of Thomas Saying 36. T. C. Skeat detected in 1938 a scribal error already present in Q 12.27a (taken over in Matt 6.28b), but still correct in P. Oxy. 655. Part I publishes Skeat's much more recent reconstruction of Saying 36 in P. Oxy. 655. Robinson had already enlarged Skeat's thesis by focusing attention on four ingredients in Q 12.22b–31 that scholarship has long since recognized as secondary, and that are significantly absent from P. Oxy. 655. Part II responds to criticisms of this thesis by J. Schröter. Part III contains concluding remarks on the archaic form of the sayings collection as a whole.

Type
Research Article
Information
New Testament Studies , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , January 2001 , pp. 1 - 25
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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