Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

Hebrew; neuter in Greek).... The Gospel of
Thomas, discovered at Nag Hammadi, has often
been thought to contain some authentic material
from the ministry of Jesus not otherwise preserved
in the canonical Gospels.
Helmut Koester, Introduction to ‘The Gospel
of Thomas’, in James M. Robinson (ed.), The Nag
Hammadi Library in English (Biblio.3): If one
considers the form and wording of the individual
sayings in comparison with the form in which they
are preserved in the New Testament, The Gospel
of Thomas almost always appears to have
preserved a more original form of the traditional
saying. In its literary genre, The Gospel of Thomas
is more akin to one of the sources of the canonical
gospels, namely the so-called Synoptic Sayings
Source (often called ‘Q’ from the German Quelle,
‘source’), which was used by both Matthew and
Luke.... In its most original form, [Thomas] may
well date from the first century.
———————, Ancient Christian Gospels
(1990): What is put to the test is the ‘early Catholic’
or ‘orthodox’ tradition, which asserts the monopoly
of the canonical gospel tradition.... Only dogmatic
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