Gospel of Thomas E-list
June 22nd, 2009 by Andrew Bernhard under Gospel of Thomas. No Comments.
I am pleased to announce that I’ve accepted an inivitation to become one of the moderators for The Gospel of Thomas Discussion List (gthomas). List owner Michael Grondin posted the news today with a kind introduction:
I’m pleased to announce that the moderators have unanimously chosen Andrew Bernhard to join their ranks, and that he has accepted. Andrew is the author of the highly-regarded 2006 book _Other Early Christian Gospels_ . . . Since last year, Andrew has been involved in analyzing the current state-of-affairs of various methods of online scholarly interaction, and has recently started his own blog (gospels.net), which has been publicized here and in the biblioblog world. We believe that his knowledge and skills will enhance our ability to remain a vital and productive force in the field of Thomasine and related studies.
Mike Grondin
for the moderators:
Bill Arnal
Andrew Criddle
Rick Hubbard
Judy Redman
The gthomas e-list has been a valuable forum for discussion of the Gospel of Thomas and related texts for more than a decade now. Moderator Emeritus is Stevan Davies, who created the Gospel of Thomas Webpage and wrote The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom
I must confess that I have been reluctant to become a moderator of any e-list for some time now, fearing that their time may have passed and that I would have to commit too much of my time. However, I’ve changed my mind with respect to gthomas list.
Mike Grondin has made significant efforts in the past year to rejuvenate the list, successfully instituting a monthly contributor program that has helped generate discussions on current topics in Thomas scholarship and facilitating the presentation of scholarly papers on the list. In addition, I appreciate how representative the group of moderators is of the list participants. All in all, I’m convinced that this e-list is going in the right direction and becoming one of its moderators will be well worth my time. It is a welcoming group that includes high-quality discussions.
The easiest way to follow or participate in the ongoing discussions is simply to join the list. I realize that many people today are reluctant to subscribe to anything that will increase their (already overwhelming) email load, but there are plenty of options for addressing this concern (for example, “daily digests” or RSS feeds). If you have any questions about how to customize your settings so that the Gospel of Thomas Discussion list works most effectively for you, do not hesitate to contact me directly (see address on sidebar). And if you have any suggestions about new (”Web 2.0″) methods that might help facilitate discussion online, I’d be most eager to hear about those as well. We’re always looking for ways to keep the group up-to-date in the ever changing communications landscape.
(I’ll even listen to you, if you can explain to me how an academic discussion might be sustained in posts containing no more than 140 characters – LOL!)
Anyway, if you’re interested in the content of gospels.net, you will likely be interested in the Gospel of Thomas Discussion List as well. You can join here.
More news on this later.
