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In 1945 thirteen volumes, or fragments of volumes, written on
papyrus were found by chance near Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt. It
appears that they had come from the library of a gnostic community
and together comprised 49 works, written in Coptic and most of them
unknown.
None of the works included in the discovery has been so much
discussed and has created so much interest as "The Gospel according
to Thomas. It is in fact a great collection of Logia, a harvesting
of 114 "Sayings of Jesus" together with a prologue which stresses
the esoteric character of the sayings and attributes their
recording and preservation to the apostle Didymus Jude Thomas.
Many of the sentences are identical with the Logia of the Synoptic
Gospels or are closely related to them. Other sayings on the
contrary are extracanonical. Among these are certain "agrapha"
which were already known or can now be recognized in ancient or
medieval literature from patristic, gnostic, Manichaean, or even
Catharist sources. Finally, the collection comprises many Logia
which are quite new and have never before been seen.
This reprint of the original 1959 edition presents the Coptic text
based on a minute examination of the manuscript, together with as
faithful a translation as possible.
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