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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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<strong>The</strong> translations <strong>of</strong> the texts themselves<br />

are both as literal and as lyrical as I could<br />

make them. Any grammatical irregularities<br />

encountered (e.g. the verb tenses in Th 109)<br />

are in the Coptic text itself. Plausible textual<br />

reconstructions are in [brackets], while<br />

editorial additions are in (parentheses).<br />

‘[...]’ indicates places where it is not<br />

possible to interpolate the deterioration <strong>of</strong><br />

the papyrus manuscript. <strong>The</strong> Greek<br />

Oxyrhynchus variants to <strong>Thomas</strong> are within<br />

{braces}. ‘You’ and its cognates are plural,<br />

‘thou’ and its cognates represent the<br />

singular (but generally with the modern<br />

verb-form). Notes at the end <strong>of</strong> each logion<br />

are indicated by superscript¹, those at the<br />

end <strong>of</strong> the current text with a circle°. <strong>The</strong><br />

scriptural cross-references listed are<br />

essential to an understanding <strong>of</strong> the saying<br />

in its biblical context, and the reader is<br />

urged to refer to them in every case;<br />

explicit parallels to <strong>Thomas</strong> in the Synoptics<br />

are separately marked with an equal sign=,<br />

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