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A. Guillaumont, H.-Ch. Puech, G. Quispel, W. Till, and Yassah 'abd al Masih, eds.
The Gospel according to Thomas.
Published Leiden: E. J. Brill/London: Collins, 1959.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the Netherlands.
Size: 162x241x11mm.
Page count: vii,62pp.
Main languages: Coptic text; facing translation and apparatus in English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is a bit grubby, some wear on its edges and corners; at some point something has left a large-ish stain on the front panel of the dustjacket and both sides of the front board, and slightly less noticeably on the front endpaper; the pages are correspondingly a little wrinkled throughout; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £8.00
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[Publisher’s price for paperback €22.00/$33.00]
Weight without packaging: 303g.

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The Gospel of Thomas is part of the collection found at Nag Hamadi in 1945, probably of gnostic origin; the ms. is probably 4th or 5th century, though the text's origins are much earlier; the fragment as we have it is essentially a collection of 114 "Sayings of Jesus".
Appendix: Scriptural parallels & echoes.

Introduction: 'preliminary remarks', 2pp
Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: half-page
Index: no


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