Giuseppe wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:03 am
The thesis of Linssen is that the prophecy about the fate (
violent death) of John the Baptist had to be found in the
Gospel of Thomas.
Hi Giuseppe, thank you for taking an interest in my thesis / theory. With regards to this exact quote right here, I pose that Mark 9:12 refers to text, likely scripture, without following up:
He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised? 13 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."
In an indirect attempt to locate said scripture myself, I pose a rather farfetched theory that assumes a lot of misreading on Mark's part, but the death of John the Baptist is not the main point in my "Absolute Thomasine priority". The reason for publishing that paper is, and I quote:
if Thomas created and started it all, then John the Baptist had to be a figment of his imagination. John the Baptist! The legendary, larger-than-life, figure of John the Baptist - not for real? Impossible. The idea was ludicrous,preposterous, and I laughed out loud, with a bitter finish: that was the end of my theory, I thought - it was impossible for John the Baptist to have been made up
I think most everyone would agree to those last sentences, yet I dedicate 30 pages detailing my arguments, the last five of which are about "Zedekiah the Immerser" who indeed does immerse Jeremiah in mud (Jeremiah 38:10-13), with the help of his sons (Jeremiah 38:6), whose eyes are indeed "broken" by Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kings 25:7, Jeremiah 39:7, 52:11), and who is not around when Jehoiachin gets (freed and) given a seat above all other kings (2 Kings 25:28, Jeremiah 52:32)
Thomas, in his logion 46, points to the entire Book of Chronicles (the very last book of the Hebrew Bible: Divrei ha-Yamim ( ּד ִֵבְר י הַּיִָּ מ םי ) - Chronicles), that starts with Adam:
1 Chronicles 1:1 Adam, Seth, Enosh, and ends with Zedekiah and Jehoiachin. Read the entire chapter 36 and they're all in it, the sons of Josiah, the last good king of Judah.
All his sons, except for Johanan - his first-born, became king - and had their name changed upon doing so:
1 Chronicles 3:15 The sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. 16 The descendants of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son;
After Josiah dies, his son Shallum is made king, aka Jeohahaz / Joahaz. After three months the Egyptian king Neco makes his brother Eliakim king, aka Jehoiakim. After eleven years Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, makes his son Jeconiah, aka Coniah, aka Jehoiachin king. After three months and ten days that same Nebuchadnezzar makes his uncle Zedekiah king, aka Mattanyahu / Mattaniah - the fourth son of Josiah, all of which became king and had their name changed, save for Johanan - Ïⲱϩⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ
Thomas, who loathes the Judeans and their (religious) practices in his text, apparently took great pleasure in the destruction of their last kingdom and the levelling of their temple (and I have unpublished material that puts forth a theory to the latter). That's what he says with his logion 46:
from the very first Jew to the very last, going by their history, Zedekiah is the greatest because he saw to the destruction of their last kingdom, and temple