Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

Yet, despite excitement over the work for
several decades, ‘nobody's heard of it except the
scholars,’ says Paterson Brown, a former
professor of the philosophy of religion who has
written on Thomas for the journal Novum
Testamentum (www.metalog.org/files/tpb/sabbath.html).
Thomas was discovered in 1945 in Egypt along
with more than 50 other ancient Christian, Jewish
and pagan works that make up a collection known
as the Nag Hammadi Library. The documents,
which date from the 4th century BC to the 4th
century AD, were written in Coptic, the language of
early Egyptian Christians. The library, including
Thomas, has been translated into English and
published in several scholarly editions. But many
scholars feel that Thomas should be made
available in a separate volume. ‘I think it's urgent
that Thomas be published alone in a paperback
edition,’ said Brown.
Unlike the other Nag Hammadi volumes,
Thomas contains teachings of Jesus, which
scholars believe would be particularly valuable for
Christian readers. Many students of the Gospel of
Thomas believe that its material is potentially of
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