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