The Gospel of Thomas or The Gospel According to Thomas (Coptic: ⲡⲉ̅ⲩ̅ⲁ̅ⲅⲅ̅ⲉⲗ̅ⲓⲟⲛ̅ ⲡⲕ̅ⲁ̅ⲧⲁ ⲑ̅ⲱ̅ⲙⲁⲥ), is a New Testament apocryphon, nearly completely preserved in a Coptic papyrus manuscript discovered in December 1945. With over fifty other documents, together known as the Nag Hammadi library, it was found by a farmer in an earthenware jar buried near Nag Hammadi, Egypt.
At the beginning of the document, the writer calls himself Didymus Judas Tho...
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The Gospel of Thomas or The Gospel According to Thomas (Coptic: ⲡⲉ̅ⲩ̅ⲁ̅ⲅⲅ̅ⲉⲗ̅ⲓⲟⲛ̅ ⲡⲕ̅ⲁ̅ⲧⲁ ⲑ̅ⲱ̅ⲙⲁⲥ), is a New Testament apocryphon, nearly completely preserved in a Coptic papyrus manuscript discovered in December 1945. With over fifty other documents, together known as the Nag Hammadi library, it was found by a farmer in an earthenware jar buried near Nag Hammadi, Egypt.
At the beginning of the document, the writer calls himself Didymus Judas Thomas and this is the source of its name, but most modern scholars do not consider Apostle Thomas its author and the author remains unknown. The document was most probably for a school of either early Christians or Gnostics who claimed Thomas as their founder. Didymus (Greek) and Thomas (Hebrew) both mean twin.
The document is very different in tone and structure from the four Canonical Gospels, or even other non-canonical gospels. Unlike the Canonical Gospels, it is not a narrative account of the life of Jesus; rather, it consists of logia, or...
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