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Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom
Second Edition
Stevan L. Davies
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“... may well be the best yet written on the theology
of Thomas...” “... nobody has done it better than he has.”
John Dominic Crossan, author of The Historical Jesus and The Birth
of Christianity
“The most original, challenging, and persuasive book about the
Gospel of Thomas that I have ever seen.”
Morton Smith, author of Jesus the Magician and The Secret Gospel
“The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom... first raised my interest
in this debated writing.”
Risto Uro, author of Thomas: Seeking the Historical Context of the
Gospel of Thomas
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 of 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.
Published January 2005 by Bardic Press. Softcover, 256 pages, ISBN 0-9745667-4-8, $19.95.
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