Type of Document Senior Honors Thesis Author Remson III, Richard Elmer URN etd-01042007-152957 Title The Gospel According to Thomas: Authoritative or Heretical? Degree B.A. Honors Department Religious Studies Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Dr. Timothy Renick Committee Member Keywords
- Thomas as Authoritative
- Thomas as Heretical
- Oxyrhynchus
- Nag Hammadi
- Didymos Judas Thomas
- Didymus Jude Thomas
- Early Christianity
- Gospel of Mark
- Gospel of Thomas
Date of Defense 2006-07-15 Availability unrestricted Abstract The Gospel According to Thomas is found in the second manuscript of codex II of a set of texts found in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, collectively referred to today as the Coptic Gnostic Library. This gospel was readily identified as Thomas due to fragments of a Greek version of the text having already been discovered and identified in the 1890s at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. However, the discovery near Nag Hammadi in 1945 C.E. was not of fragments, but it actually contained the entire text of Thomas. Thus, the finding of the entire text in Nag Hammadi brought about a set of questions that had not yet surfaced from the fragments of Thomas previously found at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. For example, was Thomas actually written by Didymus Jude Thomas? If Thomas did not write it, then by whom was it written, and why did the actual author claim it to be written by Thomas?Files
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