A List of Scholars Translations of the Gospel of Thomas in English (original) (raw)
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Of the documents unearthed near Nag Hammadi in 1945 1 , none has attracted so much attention, scholarly and otherwise, as the Gospel of Thomas. The second volume of David Scholer's Nag Hammadi Bibliography, for instance, covering the period from 1970 to 1994 2 , devotes 39 pages to listing academic bibliography on Thomas. To put this in perspective, consider that Scholer requires a scant six pages to list all books, articles, reviews, and dissertations on the Apocryphon of John over a period of more than two decades. In 2012 alone, three significant new Englishlanguage books on Thomas were released 3 ; in 2014, Journal for the Study of the New Testament had a special issue largely devoted to Thomas, Simon Gathercole published a full-blown commentary 4 , and Stephen Patterson published a popular treatment 5 . The fact that Thomas is so disproportionately (at least vis-à-vis the other Nag Hammadi writings) the subject of scholarly interest means that most avenues relating to original language 6 , 1. Or otherwise acquired. See n.D. LewIs -J.
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The Gospel of Thomas: Prospects for Future Research
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The true words of Thomas (Interactive Coptic-English gospel of Thomas)
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This groundbreaking translation of the "gospel of Thomas" follows the Coptic to the letter and reveals dozens of new words and meanings, significantly changing its interpretation. 'The true words of Thomas' hyperlinks to the Coptic Dictionary Online for each word: everyone is only one click away from the meaning(s) and verification of every single word in this text. The translation is fully normalised and contains a full double index as well as concordance: both English-Coptic as well as Coptic-English. The translation is literal, without interpretation. It contains not a single emendation (and it will reveal that every other translation contains dozens that you never knew of); the entire context for the text is the content of the text itself: and it speaks volumes. ______________________ +++Version Management+++ V1.9.5 2023-07-15 - moved the English translation, which has been rendered fully legible, up front
Tracking Thomas: a text-critical look at the transmission of the Gospel of Thomas
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Wallace for his initial thoughts on the transmission of the Gospel of Thomas that pushed me to take up this subject in the first place, his guidance through the initial stages of the formulation of the argument of the paper, and his consistent availability in pursuing the project through its completion. Additionally, many thanks go to Stazsek Bialecki, Adam Messer, Philip Miller, and Matt Morgan, my σύνδουλοι, without whose thoughts, criticisms, and encouragement I would be in the tall grass. Finally, I would like to thank my lovely fiancée Angel, who has put up with many cancelled evenings through the completion of this work. 1 Technically speaking, this statement is untrue: though the Coptic manuscript was discovered approximately 60 years ago, Thomas has been known to scholars in one form or another since the late 19 th century.