DDR: The Unknown Sayings of Jesus: A Treasury of Aphorisms, Parables, and Teachings From Early Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Sources by Marvin Meyer

 

The Unknown Sayings of Jesus: A Treasury of Aphorisms, Parables, and Teachings From Early Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Sources by Marvin Meyer 

200 pages total

Day 1 (DDRD 2,763) May 25, 2025

Read to page 37.

Here's a good answer to the question I posed at the end of my previous DDR (Miracles and Wonder):

One of my favorite non-canonical Jesus sayings: "Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there." (11, from the Gospel of Thomas)

Here's another good one: "...one who has not known oneself has not known anything, but one who has known oneself already has acquired knowledge about the depth of the universe." (35)

And: "To the fool...good and evil are one and the same. For the wise person will be nourished by truth, and will be like a tree growing by the stream of water." (37, from Book of Thomas)

Day 2 (DDRD 2,764) May 26, 2025

Read to page 85. 

Hmm. This book has a few interesting quotes, but nowhere close to enough commentary. I'm thinking I might just push hard to get through it some I can start something else.

ADDENDUM: Made it to 115, but that was all I had in me. Hard day. Ended up going to bed at 8:30.

Day 3 (DDRD 2,765) May 27, 2025

Read to page 177, The End.

Sorry to say that most of these sayings are not very interesting. They are either repeats of things I've read before, obscure things that really don't make any sense, or just things that are kind of stupid. Here's one I really liked though: 194 "Malik, son of Dinar, said this: one day Jesus was walking with his followers and they passed by the carcass of a dog. The followers said how this dog stinks!" But Jesus said, "How white are its teeth!" (140)

And another good one: "Jesus said, 'Whoever seeks the world is like one who drinks seawater. The more he drinks, the more his thirst increases, until it kills him.'" (said,

And one from the Notes: "Jesus said, 'Devotion is of ten parts. Nine of them consist in silence, and one in solitude.'" (Note on 192, page 170)

And one more from the Notes: "Jesus said, 'The world is a place of transition, full of examples. Be pilgrims in it and take warning by the traces left by those who have gone before....'" (Note on 209, page 172)