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This book addresses two central questions in current research on the Gospel of Thomas: what was its original language and which early Christian works influenced it? At present, theories of Thomas as a Semitic work abound. Simon Gathercole dismantles these approaches, arguing instead that Thomas is Greek literature and that the matter of Thomas's original language is connected with an even more controverted question: that of the relationship between Thomas and the canonical New Testament. Rather than being independent of Matthew, Mark and Luke (as in most Western Aramaic theories of Thomas) or thoroughly dependent on the four gospels (as in most Syriac approaches), Gathercole develops a newly refined approach to how Thomas is influenced by the Synoptic Gospels. Thomas can be seen to refer to Matthew as a gospel writer, and evidence is discussed showing that Thomas incorporates phraseology distinctive to Luke, while also extending that special Lukan language.

Gospel of Thomas (Coptic Gospel) --- Language, style --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 229*411 --- Evangelie van Thomas. Koptisch evangelie van Thomas --- Bible. --- Evangelie van Thomas (Coptic Gospel) --- Evangelium Thomae Copticum --- Thomas-Evangelium (Coptic Gospel) --- Toma Pogŭmsŏ (Coptic Gospel) --- Language, style. --- 229*411 Evangelie van Thomas. Koptisch evangelie van Thomas --- Christianity. --- Christianity --- Religions --- Church history --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Evangile de Thomas (G)

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The essays collected in The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Origins offer a series new chapters in the history of Christianity's first century. Stephen J. Patterson, whose work on the Gospel of Thomas has circulated widely for more than two decades, argues that taking this new source seriously will require rethinking a number of basic issues, including the assumed apocalyptic origins of early Christian faith, the supposed centrality of Jesus' death and resurrection, and the role of Platonism in formulation of both orthodox and heterodox Christian theology.

Apocryphal books --- Church history --- Gospel of Thomas (Coptic Gospel) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Apocryphal books. --- 229*411 --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Apocryphal literature --- Pseudepigrapha --- Sacred books --- Evangelie van Thomas. Koptisch evangelie van Thomas --- Bible. --- Evangelie van Thomas (Coptic Gospel) --- Evangelium Thomae Copticum --- Thomas-Evangelium (Coptic Gospel) --- Toma Pogŭmsŏ (Coptic Gospel) --- 229*411 Evangelie van Thomas. Koptisch evangelie van Thomas --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600