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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 tractate is a Coptic translation of a Greek original, [1] likely composed in Syria during the early 200s AD. [1] [5] The dialogue is between Jesus and Judas Thomas, [1] [5] whom Jesus calls "my twin" and "my brother." [2] Scholars disagree on whether Judas Thomas is Thomas the Apostle, [5] Jude the Apostle, [1] and/or Jude, brother of Jesus ...
The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says (London: Continuum, 2007) The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation: With a Commentary and New English Translation of the Complete Gospel (T&T Clark, 2007) Recovering the Original Gospel of Thomas: A History of the Gospel and its Growth(T&T Clark, 2006)
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:
Jean-Yves Leloup is a French theologian, writer, translator of Greek and Coptic language texts, born in 1950 in Angers.He is the author of over ninety books in French, some translated into other languages, including English, German, Spanish and Portuguese.The primary subject of his writings is Christian spirituality.
The only complete copy of the Gospel of Thomas was found in 1945 when a Coptic version was discovered at Nag Hammadi with a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts. [5] The fragment contains logia (sayings) 1–7 of the Gospel of Thomas on the verso side of the leaf (opisthograph). [2]
Bede (c. 672–735) produced a translation of the Gospel of John into Old English, which he is said to have prepared shortly before his death. This translation is lost; we know of its existence from Cuthbert of Jarrow's account of Bede's death. [6] The Vespasian Psalter [7] (~850–875) is an interlinear gloss of the Book of Psalms in the ...