The Gospel according to Thomas : the Gnostic sayings of Jesus

by Antoine Guillaumont

Other authorsGilles Quispel, Yassah Abd Al Masih, Walter Till, Henry-Charles Puech

Hardcover, 1984

Publication

Imprint: San Francisco : Harper & Row, [1984], c1959. Responsibility: Coptic text established and translated by A. Guillaumont, H.-Ch. Peuch, G. Quispel, W. Till and Yassah ʻAbd al-Masīḥ. OCLC Number: 787635. Physical: Text : 1 volume : vii, 62 pages ; 20 cm Features: Includes notes

Call number

GT-C / TX / Thomas

Barcode

BK-06942

ISBN

0060667109 / 9780060667108

Original publication date

1959

Collections

Your library, Adult Materials, The Great Traditions

CSS Library Notes

Description: 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.
This reprint of the original 1959 edition presents the Coptic text based on a minute examination of the manuscript, together with as faithful a translation as possible.

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The Gospel according to Thomas by Antoine Guillaumont (Hardcover)

Physical description

vii, 62 p.; 20 cm

Description

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.This reprint of the original 1959 edition presents the Coptic text based on a minute examination of the manuscript, together with as faithful a translation as possible.… (more)