Martijn LinssenI've just published my last distraction before going back to the Commentary - and it took a whole lot longer than expected
https://www.academia.edu/100743526
καινή διαθήκη - a covenant as fresh as a split patch
Thomas, *Ev and the Synoptics: the parable of the wineskin and the patch
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καινή διαθήκη - a covenant as fresh as a split patch
This paper will demonstrate that it was Thomas’ parable of the wine(skin) and patch which inspired Marcion (*Ev) to his καινή διαθήκη, his ‘new covenant’ (literally ‘disposition’), and that it was one essential word in that parable that made all the