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This volume by Paul Barnett is a calculated reaction against the popular dichotomy between the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith. In Finding the Historical Christ Barnett seeks to establish that the two figures are, in fact, one and the same. The culmination of Barnett’s After Jesus trilogy, Finding the Historical Christ carefully examines the ancient sources pertaining to Jesus,...

The Gospel of Thomas does not belong to the gospel genre since it is not a narrative but rather a series of sayings of Jesus. It is a fourth-century Coptic text that appears to have been translated from a second-century Greek version (a view supported by Greek papyri fragments P.Oxy. 654, I, 655). The Gospel of Thomas is not a straight translation, since in the intervening century the Coptic version seems to have assimilated to the Coptic version of the NT. Consequently we cannot confidently retrovert
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