406 D.W. Kim in the spiritual atmosphere of the Thomasine community, when the new proselytisers tried to settle down in the Christian community. The Logia of Thomas should be comprehensive in the perspective of “the community orientation guide” through which the new proselytisers from Judaism renounced their old Jewish mentality and adopted the charismatic customs of Thomas. The transitional process of their new identity is additionally elucidated by Valantasis, in that “for the task of refashioning one-self, the gradual and sustained performances incrementally construct a new identity, slowly building up a new way of understanding self, society, and world” (71). 3. The Thomasine Beatitudes The community rules, thirdly, are seen in the phrases of “makarios (Blessed)”, although Stroker’s Extra-Canonical Sayings of Jesus does not include any beatitudes of Jesus as part of the rules of the early Christian communities (72). The Thomas Logiographer quoted the term makarios about thirteen times (73) in ten different Logia (74) with six makarioi used for different purposes (75).The makarios Logia 7, 18, 19, 49, 58 and 103 begin grammatically with the plural article of ÿen. The single article of ou is also used in Logia of 54, 68 and 69 (76). The makarios of the Logion 79, expressed as neeiat, is mystically exceptional, but the subjective noun still expresses the same meaning as makarios (77). The makarios Logia are formed in an apophthegmatic way in order to keep the mind of the community members steadfast in their new belief. The Matthean text contains nine makarios sayings in a professional structure for its own community readers (78), while the (71) Although the new community concept of Valantasis is still based on the ascetic view of 100-110 C.E. his imagining of the new proselytisers is quite plausible. VALANTASIS, “Is the Gospel of Thomas Ascetical?”, 75-81. (72) Stroker collected a lot of non-canonical Logia of Jesus including Thomas and enumerated them with other relevant texts. See W.D. STROKER, Extracanonical Sayings of Jesus (Atlanta, GA 1989) 198-245. (73) NHC II, 2: 33: 24; 36: 14, 17; 41: 27; 42: 23; 43: 08; 45: 21, 25, 28; 47: 04, 06-07, 10 and 50: 06. (74) Logia 7, 18, 19, 49, 54, 58, 68, 69, 79 and 103. (75) Logia 7, 18, 19, 79a, 79c and 103. (76) This makarios articles are decided according to the following objects. They are not relevant to the interpretation of the makarios Logia of Thomas. (77) The editor of the Nag Hammadi Thomas used a different term for “blessed”, which is not clearly identified yet. (78) Matt 5,3-11.