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Thomas and the Gospels

The Making of an Apocryphal Text

by Mark Goodacre

  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: SPCK Publishing
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

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The Gospel of Thomas is the most controversial of the non-canonical gospels and the most important source outside the Gospels for our understanding of the historical Jesus and Christianity's origins. Mark Goodacre makes a detailed and compelling case that the author of The Gospel of Thomas is, after all, familiar with the Synoptic Gospels. He shows that the arguments for independence are inadequate and that the degree of agreement between Thomas and the Synoptics is far too great to be mediated by oral tradition. He suggests that Thomas features tell-tale signs of Matthew's and Luke's redactions and that the Gospel should be dated to the early to middle second century, when its author was looking for a means of lending the voice of his enigmatic Jesus an authoritative, Synopic-sounding legitimacy.
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  • Author

    Mark Goodacre

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    SPCK Publishing

  • Published

    October 2012

  • Weight

    341g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780281067763

  • ISBN-10

    0281067767

  • Eden Code

    4039692

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