THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS

THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS的描述

There is a general consensus among scholars that the Gospel of Thomas – discovered over a half century ago in the Egyptian desert – dates to the very beginnings of the Christian era and may well have taken first form before any of the four traditional canonical Gospels. During the first few decades after its discovery several voices representing established orthodox biases argued that the Gospel of Thomas (abbreviated, GTh) was a late-second or third century Gnostic forgery. Scholars currently involved in Thomas studies now largely reject that view, though such arguments will still be heard from orthodox apologists and are encountered in some of the earlier publications about Thomas.

Today most students would agree that the Thomas Gospel has opened a new perspective on the first voice of the Christian tradition. Recent studies centered on GTh have led to a stark reappraisal of the forces and events forming "orthodoxy" during the second and third centuries. But more importantly, the Gospel of Thomas is awakening interest in a forgotten spiritual legacy of Christian culture. The incipit (or "beginning words") of Thomas invite each of us "who has ears to hear" to join in a unique quest:

These are the hidden words that the living Jesus spoke,
and that Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down. And He said:
"Whoever finds the meaning of these words will not taste death."

Aside from The Gospel of Thomas, this app also provides sought after content on:

★ The Gospel of Thomas Fragments from Oxyrhynchus ★
-At the very beginning of the twentieth century three separate fragments from Greek versions of the Gospel of Thomas were discovered during archeological excavations of an ancient site in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. (Fragments of the Gospel of Mary were also found at Oxyrhynchus.) The three papyrus fragments of Thomas – known as the Oxyrhynchus fragments – date to between 130 - 250 CE.

Translations of the sayings found in these Greek fragments of Thomas are presented here, followed by versions of the same sayings as they appear in the Coptic manuscript found at Nag Hammadi.

★ Hymn of the Pearl ★
- This beautiful text, excerpted from the Acts, is highly recommended reading.

★ The Acts of Thomas ★
- The complete text the Acts of Thomas, from The Apocryphal New Testament, translated by M. R. James.

We hope you'll enjoy and be enlightened with the contents within this app. Please leave us a rating and feedback for us to improve in future updates and releases.
学者们普遍认为，托马斯福音书 - 半个多世纪以前在埃及沙漠中发现 - 可以追溯到基督教时代的最初阶段，并且很可能在四种传统的经典福音书中出现。在发现之后的最初几十年中，代表已确立的正统偏见的几个声音认为托马斯福音（缩写为GTh）是晚期的二世纪或三世纪的诺斯替教伪造。目前参与托马斯研究的学者现在基本上拒绝这种观点，尽管这些论点仍然会从正统的辩护者那里听到，并且在一些早期关于托马斯的出版物中也会遇到。

今天，大多数学生都会同意托马斯福音书对基督教传统的第一个声音开辟了新的视角。最近以GTh为中心的研究导致对在第二和第三世纪形成“正统”的力量和事件进行了严格的重新评估。但更重要的是，托马斯福音正在唤醒对基督教文化被遗忘的精神遗产的兴趣。托马斯的开始（或“开头的话语”）邀请我们每个人“有耳朵听”加入一个独特的任务：

这些是活着的耶稣所说的隐藏的话语，
而Didymos Judas Thomas写下来了。他说：
“无论谁发现这些词语的含义，都不会尝到死亡。”

除了托马斯的福音，这个应用程序还提供了受欢迎的内容：

★来自Oxyrhynchus的托马斯片段的福音★
- 在二十世纪初，在埃及Oxyrhynchus的一个古老遗址的考古发掘过程中，发现了三个独立的碎片来自希腊文版的托马斯福音。 （在Oxyrhynchus也发现了玛利亚福音的碎片。）托马斯的三个纸莎草碎片 - 被称为Oxyrhynchus碎片 - 可以追溯到公元130年至250年之间。

这些在托马斯的希腊片段中发现的谚语翻译在这里，然后是与在Nag Hammadi发现的科普特手稿中出现的相同谚语的版本。

★珍珠的赞美诗★
- 这部精美的文字，摘自使徒行传，强烈推荐阅读。

★托马斯的行为★
- 完整的文本托马斯的行为，来自新约圣经，由M. R.詹姆斯翻译。

我们希望您能够在这个应用程序中享受并开悟内容。请给我们一个评级和反馈，以便我们在将来的更新和发布中进行改进。

There is a general consensus among scholars that the Gospel of Thomas – discovered over a half century ago in the Egyptian desert – dates to the very beginnings of the Christian era and may well have taken first form before any of the four traditional canonical Gospels. During the first few decades after its discovery several voices representing established orthodox biases argued that the Gospel of Thomas (abbreviated, GTh) was a late-second or third century Gnostic forgery. Scholars currently involved in Thomas studies now largely reject that view, though such arguments will still be heard from orthodox apologists and are encountered in some of the earlier publications about Thomas.

Today most students would agree that the Thomas Gospel has opened a new perspective on the first voice of the Christian tradition. Recent studies centered on GTh have led to a stark reappraisal of the forces and events forming "orthodoxy" during the second and third centuries. But more importantly, the Gospel of Thomas is awakening interest in a forgotten spiritual legacy of Christian culture. The incipit (or "beginning words") of Thomas invite each of us "who has ears to hear" to join in a unique quest:

These are the hidden words that the living Jesus spoke,
and that Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down. And He said:
"Whoever finds the meaning of these words will not taste death."

Aside from The Gospel of Thomas, this app also provides sought after content on:

★ The Gospel of Thomas Fragments from Oxyrhynchus ★
-At the very beginning of the twentieth century three separate fragments from Greek versions of the Gospel of Thomas were discovered during archeological excavations of an ancient site in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. (Fragments of the Gospel of Mary were also found at Oxyrhynchus.) The three papyrus fragments of Thomas – known as the Oxyrhynchus fragments – date to between 130 - 250 CE.

Translations of the sayings found in these Greek fragments of Thomas are presented here, followed by versions of the same sayings as they appear in the Coptic manuscript found at Nag Hammadi.

★ Hymn of the Pearl ★
- This beautiful text, excerpted from the Acts, is highly recommended reading.

★ The Acts of Thomas ★
- The complete text the Acts of Thomas, from The Apocryphal New Testament, translated by M. R. James.

We hope you'll enjoy and be enlightened with the contents within this app. Please leave us a rating and feedback for us to improve in future updates and releases.