Gospels of Thomas and Philip and Truth - Syriac Christian Church
Gospels of Thomas and Philip and Truth - Syriac Christian Church
Gospels of Thomas and Philip and Truth - Syriac Christian Church
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Somsel); also in MSWord print version: www.metalog.org/files/plum.html.<br />
5. The indispensable st<strong>and</strong>ard lexicon is: A Coptic Dictionary (by Walter Ewing<br />
Crum), Oxford: The University Press, 1939, reprinted 2000 by S<strong>and</strong>piper Books Ltd,<br />
London (www.s<strong>and</strong>piper.co.uk) & Powells Books, Chicago (www.powells.com);<br />
online in gif <strong>and</strong> djvu formats: www.metalog.org/files/crum.html; note that this<br />
monumental work is alphabetized primarily by consonants <strong>and</strong> only secondarily by<br />
vowels; Coptic is a partly agglutinative language, utilizing a complex system <strong>of</strong><br />
morphological <strong>and</strong> syntactical prefixes <strong>and</strong> suffixes which must be subtracted in<br />
order to identify the root term— for example, tn-nan-nhuebol → tn-.na.n-nhu.ebol<br />
(P199a C219b C034a: ‘we.shall.come.forth’).<br />
6. For my translation <strong>of</strong> <strong>Thomas</strong>, I have utilized the unsurpassed first edition <strong>of</strong><br />
the Coptic with line-by-line English, French, German <strong>and</strong> Dutch translations, as<br />
published in: The Gospel according to <strong>Thomas</strong> (edited by Antoine Guillaumont,<br />
Henri-Charles Puech, Gilles Quispel, Walter Till & Yassah ‘Abd al-Masih), Leiden:<br />
E.J. Brill; New York: Harper & Brothers; London: Collins, 1959; online:<br />
www.metalog.org/files/coptic_thomas.html.<br />
7. The Gospel <strong>of</strong> <strong>Thomas</strong> website, with many links: www.epix.net/~miser17/<br />
<strong>Thomas</strong>.html; maintained by Stevan Davies.<br />
8. There is now a most useful interlinear Coptic/English edition <strong>of</strong> <strong>Thomas</strong>:<br />
www.metalog.org/files/grondin.html (edited by Michael Grondin).<br />
9. The current st<strong>and</strong>ard popular edition <strong>of</strong> <strong>Thomas</strong>, with Coptic text, English<br />
translation <strong>and</strong> notes: The Gospel <strong>of</strong> <strong>Thomas</strong> (edited <strong>and</strong> translated by Marvin<br />
Meyer), San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1992.<br />
10. The prior Greek fragments <strong>of</strong> <strong>Thomas</strong>, which vary significantly from the<br />
Coptic version: New Sayings <strong>of</strong> Jesus <strong>and</strong> Fragment <strong>of</strong> a Lost Gospel from<br />
Oxyrhynchus (edited by Bernard Grenfell, Lucy Drexel & Arthur Hunt), Oxford<br />
University Press, London: Henry Frowde, 1904; available online at www.gospels.net/<br />
thomas (by Andrew Bernhard).<br />
11. A well-illustrated <strong>and</strong> most informative historical account <strong>and</strong> analysis: ‘The<br />
Gospel <strong>of</strong> <strong>Thomas</strong>: Does It Contain Authentic Sayings <strong>of</strong> Jesus?’ (by Helmut Koester<br />
& Stephen Patterson), Bible Review, April 1990 (www.easycart.net/ecarts/bib-arch/<br />
BR_Back_Issues_1990.html).<br />
12. The st<strong>and</strong>ard scholarly edition <strong>of</strong> <strong>Thomas</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Philip</strong>, with ancillary<br />
materials, critical Coptic text, English translation <strong>and</strong> fully indexed Coptic <strong>and</strong> Greek<br />
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