![]() ![]() This text says it’s Jesus’ secret teaching. I, and others who study Jewish mystical thought at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, suspect that this tradition goes back 2,000 years. People were old by thirty-five, so you had to be a mature Jewish man to have access to that kind of teaching. So, there was a prohibition on teaching anyone mystical Judaism before he was thirty-five, and certainly not to women. It was mystical teaching that you were not supposed to write about because you don't know what fool could get ahold of it if you did. Before that, there was a prohibition on writing about secret teaching. Kabbalah, we thought, was first known from written texts from the 10 th to the 15 th centuries from Spanish-Jewish communities. What it looks like more than anything else, when you put it in context with other historical material, is Jewish mystical thought, or, Kabbalah. ![]() It’s twenty-five years later from the time that I started working on this, and we understand something quite different about the Gospel of Thomas. ![]()
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