07_Biblica_AN_Kim_Layout 1 16/12/13 12:29 Pagina 589 589 WHERE DOES IT FIT? good and bad fishermen, hoping that he would be hooked by his Saviour rather than his adversary” 18. Such an approach relates to the different tradition of Matthew, but does not actually explore the contextual point of the Thomasine tradition. Schoedel elaborated three differences in supporting the irrelevance of Thomas to Matthew: 1) the parable of Thomas is not a Kingdom parable, but about rwme (“man”); 2) “the process of selection” is based on the “one big good fish”; 3) “the lack of any parallel to Matthew’s conclusion … of the judgment” 19. Further, if the judgment of the angels (Matt 13: 49-50) is an allegorical application of the Matthean parable, it would be right to suggest that Thomas and Matthew do not have the same parable, but rather contrasting versions that were written in different eras. Therefore, it would be easier to pursue the claim that the author of Matthew attached the “allegorical interpretation” 20 to the Matthean Q source, while Thomas, with no allegorical intent, keeps its sapiential originality in the context. The adjective rrm_nhyt (“wise”) in the words ououwhe _rrm_nhyt` (“a wise fisherman”) does not support the gnostic reflection; rather, it upholds the notion that Logion 8 originated from a Jewish sophia tradition. Leibenberg comments on this view of sophia that “there is no typical “gnostic” understanding of sophia … on the contrary, it appears to be advocating an understanding of sophia which is the opposite of a gnostic, esoteric understanding of sophia” 21. II. Logion 97: The Parable of the Empty Jar Secondly, the woman in Logion 97 22, according to the word noeit (“meal”), had been grocery shopping or had got some food from someone 18 BLOMBERG, “Tradition and Redaction”, 192. 19 Schoedel takes him to be “the inner man” or “the Primal Man”. See SCHOEDEL, “Parables in the Gospel of Thomas”, 552-553; MORRICE, “Hidden Sayings of Jesus”, 269-273. 20 STROKER, “Extra canonical Parables”, 104-106. 21 J. LIEBENBERG, The Language of the Kingdom and Jesus. Parable, Aphorism, and Metaphor in the Sayings Material Common to the Synoptic Tradition and the Gospel of Thomas. (Berlin – New York 2001) 258-275. 22 “Jesus said, the kingdom of the [father] is like a certain woman who was carrying a [jar] full of meal. While she was walking [on the] road, still some distance from home, the handle of the jar broke and the meal emptied out behind her [on] the road. She did not realise it; she had noticed no accident. When she reached her house, she set the jar down and found it empty” (Logion 97). See T.O. LAMBDIN, “The Gospel of Thomas (II, 2)”, The Nag Hammadi Library in English (Leiden – New York – Köln, 1996) 124-138.