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Thomas
"Many scholars believe that The Gospel of Thomas, the famous collection of Jesus' sayings found in Nag Hammadi in 1945, makes all the difference to our understanding of Christianity. The gospel has been studied closely for the new light it throws on pre-canonical traditions, and for the different world of wisdom it seems to represent." "Without denying the value of such studies, this book takes a different approach. It does not look backwards to the earlier sources of the gospel nor to the historical Jesus, but seeks to locate Thomas on the map of early Christian literature and history by comparing the gospel to other related writings and traditions. These include the writings ascribed to the mysterious apostle Judas Thomas, other documents from Nag Hammadi, Paul and Stoic teachers, and the Gospel of Matthew." "No single interpretive key for the understanding of the gospel is...
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