We're basically done investigating GTh as a source for the gospels, but there are some odds and ends to tidy up. Let's try to get a finalized list of sayings that were added at each step: by Secret Mark on the one hand, and then later by the Q-gospel author.
One resource I've used to help firm up this list is the commentary by Craig Schenk at the Internet Sacred Text Archive:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/thomas.htm
Schenk doesn't find every parallel and makes a few mistakes, but has been very helpful in showing that Miller et al's analysis is incomplete as well. (I'll also be checking April De Conick's list in the appendix to The Original Gospel of Thomas In Translation just to make sure I've caught everything.)
In the triple tradition: technically I should have not listed logion 21:9 in my original list, since I had not yet established that it was a triple-tradition saying; it still belonged to the uniquely-Markan parallels. Ultimately, of course, I move it to the triple-tradition list, or else I leave it aside as a single example of oral tradition shared between Thomas and Mark.
I also remove saying 44 ("eternal sin") from the triple tradition and move it to the Q list. This will have very important implications we'll explore in a couple of posts.
So, based on Schenk's study, to the triple tradition I add the following: 22:1-2 48 58 62:1
In the Q tradition (the Mt-Lk double-tradition): I likewise shouldn't have listed 10 in the original list, since I hadn't yet established that it was in fact a parallel shared by Matthew and Marcion/Luke; it was still on the list of uniquely-Lukan parallels. Nevertheless, it does ultimately belong to the Q tradition.
So to the Q tradition I add: 43:b,c 45 103 107 (and 44, from the triple tradition, as mentioned above)
Now there are some very interesting issues to discuss in terms of uniquely Matthean and Lukan parallels. There are one or two extra that I found, and we'll be exploring them in the next couple of posts.
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