The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation With a Commentary and New English Translation of the Complete Gospel

by Deconick, April D.

• ISBN13: 9780567042927
• ISBN10: 0567042928
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

An enigmatic collection of 114 sayings of Jesus, the Gospel of Thomas was discovered in the sands of Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in the 1940s. In The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation April DeConick provides a new English translation of the entire text, including the original 'kernel' of the Gospel, and a complete saying by saying commentary. It serves as an ideal companion to DeConick's critically acclaimed history of the Gospel, Recovering the Original Gospel of Thomas (T&T Clark, 2006). Book jacket.

Author Biography

April D. DeConick is the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University, Houston, Texas

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xiii
List of Illustrations	p. xv
The Gospel in Translation
Boundaries and Basics	p. 2
A Gnostic Gospel?	p. 3
An Alternative Solution	p. 3
Characteristics of Early Syrian Christianity	p. 5
An Ancient 'Orthodox' Syrian Gospel	p. 5
A Late Gospel?	p. 7
The Kernel Gospel of Thomas	p. 7
Later Accretions in the Gospel of Thomas	p. 8
A Coptic Gospel?	p. 9
The Greek Oxyrhynchus Fragments	p. 9
The Coptic Translation	p. 11
An Aramaic 'Original'	p. 11
A Dependent Gospel?	p. 13
Independence Appeals	p. 15
Dependence Appeals	p. 17
An Alternative Appeal	p. 18
Reliance on Aramaic Traditions	p. 19
A Connection with the Pseudo-Clementines and Tatian	p. 19
Characteristics of Orally Transmitted Material	p. 21
Commonalities between the Thomasine-Synoptic Variants	p. 22
Thomasine-Synoptic Aphorisms	p. 22
Thomasine-Synoptic Parables	p. 23
An Oral Gospel	p. 23
The Kernel Gospel of Thomas	p. 25
Speech One: Eschatological Urgency	p. 25
Speech Two: Eschatological Challenges	p. 26
Speech Three: Exclusive Commitment to Jesus	p. 27
Speech Four: Selection of the Worthy Few	p. 28
Speech Five: The Imminent Kingdom of God	p. 30
The Complete Gospel of Thomas	p. 32
Commentary on the Gospel of Thomas
Incipit Logion	p. 44
Logia 1 to 114.1-2	p. 46
Subtitle	p. 298
Verbal Similarities Between Thomas and the Synoptics	p. 299
Select Bibliography	p. 317
Index of References	p. 340
Index of Authors	p. 356
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