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and Valentine of Alexandria, and come to us basically intact and well translated into Coptic from the original Aramaic, Hebrew or Greek. There is absolutely no reason to propose a more complex hypothesis here. And so, following the example of Aristotle's Metaphysics (thus afterward titled by Andronicus of Rhodes), I have called this collection of new scriptures ‘Metalogos’— that is, ‘More Logos’. In sum, these new yet ancient Gospels are truly a most marvelous discovery— p.ixqus 5.euxaristou.k! — Thomas Paterson Brown, BA (Amherst), PhD (London) Cajamarca, Perú; September 2007 edit@metalog.org Bibliography 1. Photographic editions of the complete papyrus manuscripts have been published by UNESCO in conjunction with the Egyptian Government, under the editorship of James M. Robinson et alia: The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices (Codex I & Codex II), Leiden: E.J. Brill (www.brill.nl), 1977 & 1974 (The Gospel of Truth is in Codex I, Thomas and Philip in Codex II). 2. There is a complete bibliography regarding the new Coptic texts: Nag Hammadi Bibliography 1970-1994, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997; also listed annually 1970 ff. in the journal Novum Testamentum (both by David Scholer); as of 2004, this listing had reached 10626 separate titles! 3. The entire collection of some 45 titles (including a wide diversity of period religious writings) is available in a popularized edition: The Nag Hammadi Library in English (edited by James M. Robinson & Marvin Meyer), San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1977, 1988³ (with Richard Smith). 4. For the grammatical structure of the Coptic language, I have used the comprehensive Introductory Coptic Grammar (by John Martin Plumley, subsequently Professor of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge), London: Home & Van Thal, 1948; this authoritative but rare mimeographed sourcebook of the Sahidic dialect is on-line: photocopied in 1987 by Robert Michael Schapiro at the Mt Scopus Library of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem; transcribed from GIF to HTML format (with George 10
Somsel); also in MSWord print version: www.metalog.org/files/plum.html. 5. The indispensable standard lexicon is: A Coptic Dictionary (by Walter Ewing Crum), Oxford: The University Press, 1939, reprinted 2000 by Sandpiper Books Ltd, London (www.sandpiper.co.uk) & Powells Books, Chicago (www.powells.com); online in gif and djvu formats: www.metalog.org/files/crum.html; note that this monumental work is alphabetized primarily by consonants and only secondarily by vowels; Coptic is a partly agglutinative language, utilizing a complex system of morphological and syntactical prefixes and suffixes which must be subtracted in order to identify the root term— for example, tn-nan-nhuebol → tn-.na.n-nhu.ebol (P199a C219b C034a: ‘we.shall.come.forth’). 6. For my translation of Thomas, I have utilized the unsurpassed first edition of the Coptic with line-by-line English, French, German and Dutch translations, as published in: The Gospel according to Thomas (edited by Antoine Guillaumont, Henri-Charles Puech, Gilles Quispel, Walter Till & Yassah ‘Abd al-Masih), Leiden: E.J. Brill; New York: Harper & Brothers; London: Collins, 1959; online: www.metalog.org/files/coptic_thomas.html. 7. The Gospel of Thomas website, with many links: www.epix.net/~miser17/ Thomas.html; maintained by Stevan Davies. 8. There is now a most useful interlinear Coptic/English edition of Thomas: www.metalog.org/files/grondin.html (edited by Michael Grondin). 9. The current standard popular edition of Thomas, with Coptic text, English translation and notes: The Gospel of Thomas (edited and translated by Marvin Meyer), San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1992. 10. The prior Greek fragments of Thomas, which vary significantly from the Coptic version: New Sayings of Jesus and Fragment of a Lost Gospel from Oxyrhynchus (edited by Bernard Grenfell, Lucy Drexel & Arthur Hunt), Oxford University Press, London: Henry Frowde, 1904; available online at www.gospels.net/ thomas (by Andrew Bernhard). 11. A well-illustrated and most informative historical account and analysis: ‘The Gospel of Thomas: Does It Contain Authentic Sayings of Jesus?’ (by Helmut Koester & Stephen Patterson), Bible Review, April 1990 (www.easycart.net/ecarts/bib-arch/ BR_Back_Issues_1990.html). 12. The standard scholarly edition of Thomas and Philip, with ancillary materials, critical Coptic text, English translation and fully indexed Coptic and Greek 11
Page 1 and 2: Metalogos’ The Gospels of Thomas
Page 3 and 4: Introduction In December of 1945 tw
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Page 9: Establishment— whether political,
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Page 27 and 28: sick among them. For what goes into
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Page 31 and 32: 33. Yeshua says: What thou shall he
Page 33 and 34: 45. Yeshua says: They do not harves
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Page 37 and 38: invites thee. He replied to him: My
Page 39 and 40: 77. Yeshua says: I-Am the Light who
Page 41 and 42: 89. Yeshua says: Why do you wash th
Page 43 and 44: nor does he allow the oxen to eat.
Page 45 and 46: evolving after the invasion of Alex
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Page 53 and 54: you.’) 9. The light with the dark
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have found his sons to be noble for
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(Isa 44:9-20!, Ph 14) 55. Vessels o
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65. (Among) the unclean spirits the
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28 58) 72. The truth did not come u
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80. Thru the Sacred Spirit we are i
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the Sovereignty of the Heavens, whi
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on that which he had planted. His h
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custom drink this, we shall receive
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the Union° is the recognition. The
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and sun and wind bring on the flowe
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woman mate with each other, except
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that visible beings are thus weak a
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eternal. And it is thus revealed to
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Shorter Oxford English Dictionary,
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thereafter in Mesopotamia. Joseph t
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Disciple, one of the Seven and auth
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1. The Gospel of Truth is joy for t
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8. Thus he became a reposeful and l
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whither he is going. He understands
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drawn to cut this way and that as e
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27. Then the moment comes when thos
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35. Thus strength grows in action.
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compassion of the Father who will h
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Father is the Son. How otherwise wo
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speaking the perfect light which is
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(1) Are the Coptic Gospels Gnostic?
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It would merely beg the question to
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This allusion strongly conveys a ma
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It will be of value to list here th
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III Philip 46 is thus a logion whic
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composed of God’s imagination. VI
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structure of [Mahayana] Buddhist ph
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4.3 the ego is within its imagery (
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excerpts suffice to show that what
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The Gospels stipulate that those wo
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The Gospels endorse John's Baptism
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Pauline Church— which indeed has
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epose? Tales from the Old French,
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he did not know that he was dead [J
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opinion of St Paul, all things cons
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teachings set forth in the Gospel o
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Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth
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celibacy indeed entered Christianit
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Bertrand Russell, ‘An Outline of
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William D. Davies, ‘Paul and Jewi
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primary, but rather a Jewish Christ
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doomed to disappointment.... The Bi
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ejecting the [Mosaic] law.... Paul
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Jon Sobrino, Jesus Christ Liberator
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individual deeds. || One might refl
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fitting teacher for flesh and blood
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