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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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evidence <strong>of</strong> a Gospel tradition transmitted in a<br />

Jewish Christian milieu.... [It] is not gnostic at all.<br />

<strong>The</strong> adherents <strong>of</strong> the gnostic interpretation ... must<br />

explain how the author could possibly say that the<br />

buried corpse could rise again (logion 5, Greek<br />

version).... For the Gospel <strong>of</strong> <strong>Thomas</strong>, Christ is our<br />

Father and the Holy Spirit is our Mother.<br />

Antoine Guillamont, ‘Semiticisms in the<br />

Logia <strong>of</strong> Jesus found at Nag Hammadi’, Journal<br />

Asiatique (1958): <strong>The</strong> Coptic logia [in the Gospel <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Thomas</strong>] can, in certain cases, help to restore the<br />

Aramaic substratum <strong>of</strong> Synoptic logia.... Certain<br />

divergences <strong>of</strong> detail between the text <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Coptic logia and the Synoptic text are explained by<br />

reference to a common Aramaic substratum. In<br />

those cases, the terminology <strong>of</strong> the Coptic logia<br />

enables us to restore the Aramaic substratum<br />

more surely than when we have only the Synoptic<br />

text.<br />

Otto A. Piper, ‘Review <strong>of</strong> Jung Codex’,<br />

<strong>The</strong>ology Today (1958): While all the world talks<br />

about the Dead Sea Scrolls, relatively little<br />

publicity has been given to another find <strong>of</strong> ancient<br />

manuscripts, which may prove to be <strong>of</strong> greater<br />

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