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The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas [1]) is a non-canonical [2] sayings gospel. It was discovered near Nag Hammadi , Egypt , in 1945 among a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library .
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.
The Gospel of Thomas refers to Jesus as the "son of man" and affirms his lordship. [9] For the Thomasines, Jesus is considered a figure whose nature resists simple categorization or description. However, certain passages in the Gospel of Thomas may suggest aspects of divine characteristics attributed to Jesus.
The Gospel of Thomas, it is often claimed, has some gnostic elements but lacks the full gnostic cosmology. However, even the description of these elements as "gnostic" is based mainly upon the presupposition that the text as a whole is a "gnostic" gospel, and this idea itself is based upon little other than the fact that it was found along with ...
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:
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The libretto also includes quotes from the Gospel of Thomas, Pistis Sophia and the Gospel of Philip. [30] A forgery of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene appears in the X-Files episode "Hollywood A.D." A quote from the Gospel of Mary is found in the 2006 movie The Da Vinci Code as confirmation that Jesus had a wife, and was mortal.
PEN America researchers documented 2,532 instances of books being banned from July 2021 to June 2022, which resulted in 1,648 books being banned, though there are likely many more, the report states.