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The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) is a non-canonical [1] sayings gospel. It was discovered near Nag Hammadi , Egypt , in 1945 among a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library .
The Gospel of Thomas refers to Jesus as the "son of man" and affirms his Lordship. [9] For the Thomasines, Jesus was too complex to be categorized or given a description. However some passages in the gospel of Thomas possibly indicate Jesus having some divinity. [16]
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 5575 (abbreviated as P. Oxy. 5575) is a second century papyrus fragment of multiple Gospels: Matthew, Luke, and Thomas.It is the oldest extant fragment from the Gospel of Thomas and comes from the era of Early Christianity before the formation of the New Testament.
As an independent gospel, it belongs, insofar as its fragmentary state allows us to see, not with discourse gospels involving the risen Jesus (e.g., the Secret Book of James and the Gospel of Mary), but with sayings gospels involving the earthly Jesus (e.g., Q document and the Gospel of Thomas). Crossan suggests that the document might have ...
Codex Tchacos, 4th century, contains the Gospel of Judas, the First Apocalypse of James, the Letter of Peter to Philip, and a fragment of Allogenes. Nag Hammadi library contains a large number of texts (for a complete list see the listing) Three Oxyrhynchus papyri contain portions of the Gospel of Thomas:
12% (16 out of 132 units) of the Gospel of Thomas has parallels in material special to Matthew. 7% (9 out of 132 units) of the Gospel of Thomas has parallels in material special to Luke. These statistics provide evidence that the Q source and Gospel of Thomas material play a minor role in the Synoptic Gospels. The Common Sayings source does not ...
An abbreviated version of the parable appears in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas (Saying 63) [19] with a longer version similar to Luke's in Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 5575. The parable has been depicted by artists such as Rembrandt (illustrated), Jan Luyken , James Tissot , and David Teniers the Younger .
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an apocryphal gospel about the childhood of Jesus.The scholarly consensus dates it to the mid-to-late second century, with the oldest extant fragmentary manuscript dating to the fourth or fifth century, and the earliest complete manuscript being the Codex Sabaiticus from the 11th century.