Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

ecorded as Thomas the Apostle, one of the
Twelve. The text is a collection of over one
hundred sayings and short dialogues of the
Savior, without any connecting narrative. A
few Christian authors in antiquity quoted
one or another of its logia as Scripture— for
example Sayings 2 22 27 37 by Clement of
Alexandria (circa 150211 AD) in his Stromata
(Patches)— but without explicit attribution
to Thomas. Then 100 years ago at
Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, there were
discovered a few fragments of what we now
know to be a prior Greek version of
Thomas, datable by paleography as follows:
PapOx 1 Th 26-33 77 200 AD
PapOx 654 Th Prolog 1-7 250 AD
PapOx 655 Th 36-39 250 AD
—see Biblio.10. The more recent discovery
of the Coptic version of Thomas has finally
made this Gospel available in its entirety.
Yet further evidence, such as the asyndeton
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