Thomas the Other Gospel

Since its discovery in the mid-1940s the Gospel of Thomas has aroused the interest of scholars and general readers alike. Thomas the Other Gospel provides a clear comprehensive nontechnical guide through the scholarly maze of issues surrounding the Coptic text. Nicholas Perrin argues that the Gospel derives not from the era of Jesus or even the apostles but from the late second century CE. Further contrary to what many scholars believe he maintains that the Gospel was originally written in Syriac rather than in Greek and he concludes that the real value of the Gospel of Thomas lies not in what it might be thought to say about the real Jesus but in what it tells us about early Christianity.