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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...

display of apostolic rivalries, probably originated before this period of accommodation. Finally, there is the way that Jesus himself is treated in this collection. Throughout the collection one is hard pressed to find an instance in which Jesus is referred to by any of the Christological titles that became ever more prominent as the early followership of Jesus grew into a full-fledged religious movement.13 He is not the “Son of Man,”14 or the “Son of God,”15 or the “Messiah” or “Christ,” or even
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