This book addresses two central questions in current research on
the Gospel of Thomas: what was its original language and which
early Christian works influenced it? At present, theories of Thomas
as a Semitic work abound. Simon Gathercole dismantles these
approaches, arguing instead that Thomas is Greek literature and
that the matter of Thomas's original language is connected with an
even more controverted question: that of the relationship between
Thomas and the canonical New Testament. Rather than being
independent of Matthew, Mark and Luke (as in most Western Aramaic
theories of Thomas) or thoroughly dependent on the four gospels (as
in most Syriac approaches), Gathercole develops a newly refined
approach to how Thomas is influenced by the Synoptic Gospels.
Thomas can be seen to refer to Matthew as a gospel writer, and
evidence is discussed showing that Thomas incorporates phraseology
distinctive to Luke, while also extending that special Lukan
language.
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