Subject: RE: rest/Jordan (GT 2) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:26:38 +0100 From: "Jacob Knee" To: Just a quick note to say thanks for the URLs and reference to your piece on Thomas and baptism. best wishes, Jacob > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-crosstalk@info.harpercollins.com > [mailto:owner-crosstalk@info.harpercollins.com]On Behalf Of Stevan > Davies > Sent: 12 September 1998 21:49 > To: crosstalk@info.harpercollins.com > Subject: Re: rest/Jordan (GT 2) > > > > From: "Jacob Knee" > > > Can anyone recommend anything written on the theological use of > the concept > > of 'rest' in early christianity. > > ""Paul's" Letter" to Hebrews often uses "rest" in a sense similar to > the sense it is found in Thomas and Matthew 11:28-29. Otherwise > not in the NT. > > If you do not know about the WWW Bible Gateway it is > a wonderful source for word-searches. I use it daily. > http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible > > Another wonderful source for word-searches is > http://www.webcom.com/cgi-bin/glimpse > which will give you citations from every early Christian text and > gnostic text you ever heard of and a hundred more. > > One could write a whole dissertation on "rest" from these > two resources alone. > > > Any recommendations for further reading about 'resting'? (Wasn't someone > > asking about GThomas and baptism - slightly curious if baptism > is in mind > > Davies on Baptism in Thomas > http://www.miseri.edu/davies/thomas/seven.htm > some folks think this is a pretty strong case... I don't anymore. > > > why - as I remember it - maybe wrong - there is no mention of either the > > Jordan or Spirit - is Spirit mentioned in GThomas at all?) > > Alas, no. Implied in 13/108 if you make an enormous effort. > > Steve >