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Recovering the Original Gospel of ThomasApril D. DeConick
Gnosticism & Christian Mysticism
Recovering the Original Gospel of Thomas
A History of the Gospel and Its Growth
- First published2005
- TraditionGnosticism
- Shelf132 books
DeConick proposes that the Gospel of Thomas grew in stages from an early kernel of sayings, later supplemented with material reflecting mystical and ascetic concerns. The book offers a method for reading the text as a 'rolling corpus' shaped by a living community.








