Date of Award
1-4-2007
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Religious Studies
First Advisor
Dr. Timothy Renick
Abstract
The Gospel According to Thomas is found in the second manuscript of codex II of a set of texts found in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, collectively referred to today as the Coptic Gnostic Library. This gospel was readily identified as Thomas due to fragments of a Greek version of the text having already been discovered and identified in the 1890s at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. However, the discovery near Nag Hammadi in 1945 C.E. was not of fragments, but it actually contained the entire text of Thomas. Thus, the finding of the entire text in Nag Hammadi brought about a set of questions that had not yet surfaced from the fragments of Thomas previously found at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. For example, was Thomas actually written by Didymus Jude Thomas? If Thomas did not write it, then by whom was it written, and why did the actual author claim it to be written by Thomas?
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1062089
Recommended Citation
Remson III, Richard Elmer, "The Gospel According to Thomas: Authoritative or Heretical?." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2007.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1062089