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The Gospel of Thomas is the modern name given to a New Testament-era apocryphon completely preserved in a papyrus Coptic manuscript discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. Unlike the four canonical gospels, which combine narrative accounts of the life of Jesus with sayings, Thomas is a "sayings gospel". It takes the less structured form of a collection of sayings attributed to Jesus, brief dialogues with Jesus, and sayings that some of his disciples reported to Didymus Judas Thomas. Thomas does not have a narrative framework, nor is it worked into any overt philosophical or rhetorical context.
The work comprises 114 sayings attributed to Jesus. Some of these sayings resemble those found in the four canonical Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). Others were unknown until its discovery, and a few of these run counter to sayings found in the four canonical gospels.
When a Coptic version of the complete text of Thomas was found, scholars realized that three separate Greek portions of it had already been discovered in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, in 1898. The manuscripts bearing the Greek fragments of the Gospel of Thomas have been dated to about 200, and the manuscript of the Coptic version to about 340. Although the Coptic version is not quite identical to any of the Greek fragments, it is believed that the Coptic version was translated from an earlier Greek version.
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A Historical Introduction to the New Testament: Apocryphal Gospels - Mainly a discussion of the Gospel of Thomas.
Collected Commentary on the Gospel of Saint Thomas - English translations and the original Coptic and Greek text for the Gospel of Saint Thomas, with quotations from scholars to elucidate the meaning.
Meta Description: [ Gospel of Thomas Commentary at GospelThomas.com: Parallels and exposition for every saying of the Gospel of Thomas. ]
Gospel of Thomas - Introduction by Geoff Trowbridge.
Metalogos - English and Spanish translations of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Truth.
Meta Description: [ English and Spanish editions of the Coptic Gospels of Thomas, Philip and Truth ]
The Five Gospels Parallels - The texts of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Thomas in English. With cross-references to parallel passages.
Meta Description: [ HTML Gospel Parallels for Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Thomas
A Teaching tool for the study of the New Testament and the literature of early Christianity ]
The Gospel of St Thomas - Includes links to translations, resources, and books as well as introductory information with scholarly quotes.
The Gospel of Thomas - Four translations; articles; and links.
Meta Description: [ The Gospel of Thomas - The Fifth (5th) Gospel - Didymos Judas Thomas Twin of Jesus - The Gospel According to Thomas ]
The Gospel of Thomas - English translation of the Gospel of Thomas by Thomas O. Lambdin.
The Gospel of Thomas (Greek Fragments) - Interlinear Greek/English translation of Thomas fragments by Andrew Bernhard.
The Gospel of Thomas Homepage - Text and translations, studies, links, related documents.
Meta Description: [ The Gospel of Thomas, Translations into English and other languages, essays, commentaries, links to material on Thomas and other lost and ancient gospels. ]
The Gospel of Thomas: Additional Information - Brief introduction and a bibliography of Greek and English renditions.
The Thomas Gospel - A revised translation of the Gospel of Thomas with comments that stress metaphorical interpretation.
Meta Description: [ The Thomas Gospel offers an edited version
of the third century Coptic Christian manuscript of the sayings of Jesus ]
Thomas Gospel Tizzy - J. P. Holding of Tektonics Ministries argues that the Gospel of Thomas is a late, worthless text.
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