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In December 1945, at the base of cliffs that run along the Nile River near the modern-day town of Nag Hammadi, an Egyptian farmer discovered a sealed jar containing the ancient text of the Gospel of Thomas. At the time, this discovery represented arguably the most significant manuscript discovery of the twentieth century for the study of the New Testament and Christian origins. The Gospel of...

Early Christianity was a diverse phenomenon. From its very inception the followership of Jesus comprised disparate groups that came in various ways to understand Jesus as significant for their lives and, for many, determinative for their understanding of who God is. Based on what we read in the Gospel of Thomas, what can be said about the sort of Christianity (if one may rightly call such early Jesus people “Christians” at all) reflected there? Those
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