Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

isolated from the rest of Christendom and not
influenced by the trends of Pauline theology. And
we must not exclude the possibility that these
people may have preserved sometimes the words
of Jesus in a form more primitive than that found in
the canonical Gospels.
——————, ‘Some Remarks on the Gospel
of Thomas’ (New Testament Studies, 1959): The Gospel
of Thomas contains a certain number of sayings
which transmit an independent Jewish-Christian
tradition, neither influenced by nor having served
as source for our canonical Gospels.... We may try
to discover the aramaisms which are so frequent
in these sayings.... Up till now about thirty logia
have been found to preserve traces of their
Aramaic origin.
——————, ‘Gnosticism and the New
Testament’, in J. Philip Hyatt (ed.), The Bible in
Modern Scholarship (papers read at the centenary
meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, 1964): The
Holy Ghost as a Mother [is] a concept well
attested in the Jewish Christian Gospel tradition
and quite understandable in a religion of Semitic
language.... The Gospel of Thomas ... contains
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