Lost sayings of Jesus, rediscovered? It may sound like something out of the vast pseudo-literature of modern apocrypha—hoaxes with titles like The Unknown Life of Christ, the Nazarene Gospel or The Lost Airplane Tickets of Jesus—but this time it may be true! One of the Nag Hammadi codices, a library of ancient writings found in Egypt in 1945, contains a tractate that purports to be a collection of Jesus’ sayings compiled by the apostle Thomas. As Helmut Koester and Stephen J. Patterson show in “The Gospel of Thomas: Does It Contain Authentic Sayings of Jesus?” this collection, once thought […]
