The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom by Stevan L Davies

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.

Stevan Davies is a religious studies professor at Misericordia University who has spent over thirty years researching non-canonical gospels and actions. The Gospel of Thomas: Annotated and Explained, The Hidden Book of John: The Gnostic Gospel--Annotated and Explained (both SkyLight Paths), and The Rebellion of the Widows: The Social World of the Apocryphal Acts (all SkyLight Paths) are some of his works. New Testament Foundations and Jesus the Healer: Possession, Trance, and the Origins of Christianity are two of his publications about the canonical Christian texts. His website (http://users.misericordia.edu/davies/thomas/Thomas.html) is one of the most comprehensive online resources for the Gospel of Thomas.

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ISBN 13	9780974566740
ISBN 10	0974566748
Title	The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom
Author	Stevan L Davies
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bardic Press
Year published	2004-12-01
Number of pages	256
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