The Gospel According to Thomas English & Coptic Gnostic Gospel Book

Description: The Gospel According to Thomas translated by Guillaumont, Antoine Puech, H. Ch. Quispel, G. Till, W. Al-Masih, Y. Abd. Harper & Row, 1959 - possible later printing, but not specified. 62 page hardcover with jacket. Contains ex-libris markings. In 1945 thirteen volumes, or fragments of volumes, written on papyrus were found by chance near Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt. It appears that they had come from the library of a gnostic community and together comprised 49 works, written in Coptic and most of them unknown.None of the works included in the discovery has been so much discussed and has created so much interest as The Gospel according to Thomas. It is in fact a great collection of Logia, a harvesting of 114 "Sayings of Jesus" together with a prologue which stresses the esoteric character of the sayings and attributes their recording and preservation to the apostle Didymus Jude Thomas.Many of the sentences are identical with the Logia of the Synoptic Gospels or are closely related to them. Other sayings on the contrary are extracanonical. Among these are certain "agrapha" which were already known or can now be recognized in ancient or medieval literature from patristic, gnostic, Manichaean, or even Catharist sources. Finally, the collection comprises many Logia which are quite new and have never before been seen. $4.15 domestic U.S. shipping. Payment must be received within 24 hours of sale.

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