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Thomas: The Other Gospel
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Thomas: The Other Gospel is a book to answer many questions, silence some speculations about the Church, and to trace the history of an ancient document. Perrin makes available a high level of biblical scholarship to the general public. Why was not the Gospel of Thomas included in the Christian canon? What does the book reveal about early Christianity? What can the book say to us now in the twenty-first century? Perrin addresses these heated questions with wit and scholarship that is unparalleled.
Nicholas Perrin is Associate Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College Graduate School, Illinois, and the author of Thomas and Tatian: The Relationship between the Gospel of Thomas and the Diatessaron and coeditor, with Mark Goodacre, of Questioning Q.
Since its discovery in the mid-1940s, the Gospel of Thomas has aroused the interest of scholars and general readers alike. Thomas, the Other Gospel
provides a clear, comprehensive, nontechnical guide through the
scholarly maze of issues surrounding the Coptic text. Nicholas Perrin
argues that the Gospel derives not from the era of Jesus or even the
apostles but from the late second century CE. Further, contrary to what
many scholars believe, he maintains that the Gospel was originally
written in Syriac rather than in Greek, and he concludes that the real
value of the Gospel of Thomas lies not in what it might be thought to say about the "real Jesus" but in what it tells us about early Christianity. (160 pages)
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