Gospel of Thomas
The Gospel of Thomas is a collection of sayings attributed to Jesus.
Established Greek fragments were found at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, and published by Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt in 1897 (P.Oxy. 1) and 1904 (P.Oxy. 654 and 655). A complete Coptic version of 114 sayings was found in Codex II of the Nag Hammadi library in 1945.[1][2] Scholarly debate Its date and relation to the canonical gospels are debated: some scholars argue for an early core in the first century independent of the Synoptics; others date it to the second century and see dependence on them.[3] Established It contains no narrative of Jesus's birth, death or resurrection.[4]
References
- ↑ B.P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt, Logia Iesou: Sayings of Our Lord (1897). Public domain; Internet Archive.
- ↑ B.P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt, New Sayings of Jesus and Fragment of a Lost Gospel from Oxyrhynchus (1904). Public domain.
- ↑ Survey in Robinson (ed.), The Nag Hammadi Library in English (1988) and later commentaries. Cited only.
- ↑ Grenfell and Hunt (1904); Coptic text in Nag Hammadi Codex II.
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