The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom

by Stevan L. Davies

Discovered in Egypt in 1945 as part of the Nag Hammadi Library, the Gospel of Thomas was long considered irrelevant to the study of Jesus' teachings. Stevan Davies' influential The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom overturned this view, and enabled the Gospel of Thomas to be taken seriously as a source for the earliest Christianity. This Bardic Press edition brings a classic work of accessible scholarshp back into print. A entirely new forty page introduction discusses recent developments in scholarship, looks at Thomas' independence from the New Testament gospels, discusses the role of Mary Magdalene in the Gospel Thomas, and offers a variety of valuable insights. A fascinating additional essay speculates that Thomas may have been used as an oracle text in a similar way to the I Ching.

256 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1983

Reviews

[Judas Phatre · Rating 5 out of 5]

Offers a lot of arguments for an early redaction of the Gospel of Thomas. Claims that GTh is a text from the Jewish wisdom literature.