The Gospel of Thomas

Posted on 07 January 2018 by Marvin W. Meyer

A new translation and analysis of the gospel that records the actual words of Jesus.Explores the gnostic significance of Jesus s teachings recorded in this gospel and explains the true nature of the new man whose coming Jesus envisioned.Translated and interpreted by the author of the bestselling Gospel of Mary Magdalene and The Gospel of Philip.One of the cache of codices and manuscripts discovered in Nag Hammadi, the Gospel of Thomas, unlike the canonical gospels, does not contain a narrative recording Christ s life and prophecies Instead it is a collection of his teachings what he actually said These 114 logia, or sayings, were collected by Judas Didymus Thomas, whom some claim to be Jesus s closest disciple No sooner was this gospel uncovered from the sands of Upper Egypt than scholars and theologians began to bury it anew in a host of conflicting interpretations and polemics While some say it is a hodgepodge from the canonical gospels, for others it is the source text from which all the gospel writers drew their material and inspiration.In this new translation of the Gospel of Thomas, Jean Yves Leloup shows that the Jesus recorded by the infinitely skeptical and infinitely believing Thomas has much in common with gnostics of non dualistic schools Like them, Jesus preaches the coming of a new man, the genesis of the man of knowledge In this gospel, Jesus describes a journey from limited to unlimited consciousness The Jesus of Thomas invites us to drink deeply from the well of knowledge that lies within, not so that we may become good Christians but so we may attain the self knowledge that will make each of us, too, a Christ. Best Read The Gospel of Thomas [ by ] Marvin W. Meyer [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr .So obviously pseudoepigraphical and so distinctly Gnostic in contrast to the canonical gospels that it perplexes me why so many modern scholars can continue to assert with any degree of integrity that this piece of literature is areliable description of the historical Jesus than the gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John To demonstrate how greatly it differs from the canonical gospels, I ll compare two infamous verses from the Gospel of Thomas with corresponding verses from the So obviously pseudoepigraphical and so distinctly Gnostic in contrast to the canonical gospels that it perplexes me why so many modern scholars can continue to assert with any degree of integrity that this piece of literature is areliable description of the historical Jesus than the gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John To demonstrate how greatly it differs from ...114500 114500 4 The Gospel of Thomas was rejected as heretical by the orthodox Christians who formally established the New Testament canon, presumably for its Gnosticism Harold Bloom states in his Interpretation that the popularity of the Gospel of Thomas among Americans is another indication that there is indeed the American religion creedless, Orphic, enthusiastic, proto gnostic, post Christian Unlike the canonical gospels, that of Judas Thomas the Twin spares us the crucifixion, makes the resurrection The Gospel of Thomas was rejected as heretical by the orthodox Christians who formally established the New Testament canon, presumably for its Gnosticism Harol...In the long run, very little in life is secret a career bureaucrat fesses up to being Deep Throat you find out that your grandfather performed on Broadway career readers work over a library s offerings with care and diligence A community of heretics disappears in Egypt, and their library turns up intact 1500 years later.Such is the story of the Nag Hammadi Library and the Gospel of Thomas One of the groups that lost the struggle to determine Christian orthodoxy and doctrine, in this case, a In the long run, very little in life is secret a career bureaucrat fesses up to being Deep Throat you find out that your grandfather performed on Broadway career readers work over a library s offerings with care and diligence A community of heretics disappears in Egypt, and their library turns up intact 1500 years later.Such is the story of the Nag Hammadi Library and the Gospel of Thomas One of the groups that lost the struggle to determine Christian orthodoxy and doctrine, in this case, a group often categorized as proto Gnostic, gets the last laugh when thirteen of their books are discovered in a cave in Egypt 1945 And maybe the best laugh of all is the Gospel of Thomas Of all the bits and pieces of alternative early Christianity that have been discovered in the last century and a half, GThom is the most complete and, in RT s opinion, the closest in content and tone to the canonical gospels Except, as it turns out, that the gospel contains almost no...This is a Gospel allegedly authored by Judas Thomas the Twin This Gospel does not provide a narrative analysis as the four Gospels of the New Testament do The focus is the page 5 sayings of Jesus As such, this work is closer to what is called a page 7 a collection of sayings The introductory essay an introduction and a rather difficult concluding essay by Harold Bloom sandwich the slim volume of sayings notes that there are three explanations for the Gospel of Thomas, one of whic This is a Gospel allegedly authored by Judas Thomas the Twin This Gospel does not provide a narrative analysis as the four Gospels of the New Testament do The focus is the page 5 sayings of Jesus As such, this work is closer to what is called a page 7 a collection of sayings The introductory essay an introduction and a rather difficult concluding essay by Harold Bloom sandwich the slim volume of sayings notes that there are three explanations for the Gospel of Thomas, one of which is that it is page 13 independent of the New Testament synoptic gospels, but it is rela...I m thinking that this review will be the only one of several books that I read on this subject that I ll enter into Goodreads since it s fairly easy to access I simply enjoyed researching this topic Just to begin the other books on the topic which I read were Q the Earliest Gospel An Intro to the original stories and sayings of Jesus John KloppenborgBeyond Belief The Secret Gospel of Thomas Elaine PagelsZealot The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth Reza AslanI got started read I m thinking that this review will be the only one of several books that I read on this subject that I ll enter into Goodreads since it s fairly easy to access I simply enjoyed researching this topic Just to begin the other books on the topic which I read ...A gospel just discovered in the 1940 s all copies ordered destroyed when the official Bible of the Christian church was assembled , the Gospel of Thomas is made up merely of several compiled sayings of Jesus Our group enjoyed delving into this short gospel, and followed the practice of the participants in the Jesus Seminar we voted for each saying by putting out one of four chips designating one of the following about whether or not we believed that Jesus actually said this it is absolutel A gospel just discovered in the 1940 s all copies ordered destroyed when the official Bible of the Christian church was assembled , the Gospel ...Lots and lots and lots of annotations The book is worth it alone for linking Jesus saying to Plutarch Gospel of Thomas Saying 86 Jesus said, Foxes have their dens and birds have their nests But the son of man has nowhere to lay his head and gain repose Marvin Meyer quotes Plutarch s Life of Tiberius Gracchus 9.4 5 on the homeless soldiers of Italy The wild animals that range over Italy have a cave, and there ...This is a good read overall It started out slow for me but the authors analysis picks up as you get into the book The only negative was assumptive and overly conclusive language that he used I eventually enjoyed his analysis, particularly the manner in which he provides context from the Gospels and other early Christian Jewish writings It is clear to see why the Gospel of Thomas was not included in the Canon Never the less, some of the ideas and thoughts fit well into Christi...

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07 January 2018

Marvin W. Meyer