About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Apocryphal collections of logia, Cainite texts, Gnostic Gospels, Mandaean texts, Manichaean texts, Sethian texts, Gospel of Thomas, The Sophia of Jesus Christ, Gospel of Judas, Secret Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Philip, The Secret Gospel of Mark and the Synoptic Problem, Nag Hammadi library, Gospel of Truth, Mar Saba letter, Apocryphon of John, Infancy Gospel of Thomas, Pistis Sophia, List of Gospels, Gospel of Marcion, Treatise on the Resurrection, Codex Tchacos, Gnostic texts, Ginza Rba, Second Treatise of the Great Seth, Unknown Berlin Gospel, Cologne Mani-Codex, Berlin Codex, Trimorphic Protennoia, Sentences of Sextus, Gospel of Mani, Ophite Diagrams, Ogias the Giant, Dialogue of the Saviour, Papyrus Oxyrhynchus L 3525, Testimony of Truth, Thought of Norea, Apocalypse of Adam, Papyrus Rylands 463, Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter, Paraphrase of Shem, Shabuhragan, Psalms of Thomas, Prayer of the Apostle Paul, Coptic Apocalypse of Paul, Books of Jeu, On the Origin of the World, Descent of Mary, Fundamental Epistle, Three Steles of Seth, Maecenas Foundation, Allogenes, Marsanes, Arzhang, Zostrianos, Tripartite Tractate, Gospel of Basilides, Askew Codex, Jung Codex, Qolusta. Excerpt: The Gospel According to Thomas, commonly shortened to the Gospel of Thomas, is a well preserved early Christian, non-canonical sayings-gospel discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in December 1945, in one of a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library. The Gospel of Thomas was found among a collection of fifty-two writings that included, in addition to an excerpt from Plato's Republic, gospels claiming to have been written by Jesus' disciple Philip. Scholars have speculated that the works were buried in response to a letter from the bishop Athanasius who for the first time declared a...