What is the Gospel of Thomas?The GTh is “an anthology of 114 ‘obscure sayings’ of Jesus, which according to its prologue, were collected and transmitted by St. Didymus Jude Thomas. The sayings do not appear within a biological narrative about Jesus, although some of them individually contain elements of dialogue or an abbreviated setting. Instead,…

Stevan L. Davies, The Gospel of Thomas: Annotated and Explained (Skylight Paths Pub 2002) – http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1893361454/peterkirby Stephen J. Patterson, The Fifth Gospel : The Gospel of Thomas Comes of Age (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press 2000). – http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1563382490/peterkirby Stephen J. Patterson, The Gospel of Thomas and Jesus (Sonoma, CA: Polebridge Press 1993). – http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0944344321/peterkirby Richard Valantasis,…

The Gospel of Thomas is extant in three Greek fragments and one Coptic manuscript. The Greek fragments are P. Oxy. 654, which corresponds to the prologue and sayings 1-7 of the Gospel of Thomas; P. Oxy. 1, which correponds to the Gospel of Thomas 26-30, 77.2, 31-33; and P. Oxy. 655, which corresponds to the…

THE HISTORICITY OF ACTS AND THE SPEECHES With this overall view of Acts, it is not surprising that Baur questioned the historical reliability of the speeches. Concerning the first five chapters of Acts with its numerous speeches, Baur argued that the era of the church portrayed by these chapters is so distort ed by Luke’s…

The Old Testament: Acts should be classified as an “Apologetic History” Acts as Novel/Romance, and not history:

The Argument against Lukan Authorship First, arguing against Lukan authorship is the fact that the document is unsigned and that there is no internal claim to authorship in either Luke or Acts (Porter, “Companion or Disciple?,” 147). Based on this alone one should be hesitant to assign a particular authorial name to these books. Also,…

https://www.academia.edu/81046131/Marcion_s_Gospel_and_the_History_of_Early_Christianity_The_Devil_is_in_the_Reconstructed_Details There are an immense number of issues, almost to the point of being overwhelming, related to Marcion’s Gospel in their discussions of, e. g., the Synoptic Problem, the formation of the New Testament canon, the textual history of Luke, and early patristics. However, no copies of Marcion’s Gospel are extant, appeals to Marcion’s Gospel require…

Article The Gospel according to Luke shows a particular interest in activities related to the collection of taxes. Its author not only reworked the controversy about paying taxes to Caesar that he or she took from Mark (Luke 20:20-26; par. Mk. 12:13-17) in a very striking way but, at the crucial moment of Jesus appearance…

Concerning Luke and Acts, it has been argued that the book should be written relatively recently, when a companion of Paul could not have been alive. Pervo’s Dating Acts is the basic introduction. As of 2006, he has a comprehensive list of which scholars dated Acts when. Some things to think about when dating Luke…

Introduction The Acts of the Apostles, following the Gospel of Luke as the second part of a diptych (c. 80 – 110 CE), tells the story of the apostles preaching the good news about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in different parts of the Graeco- Roman world. In Acts 17, we read of…