"Jesus, the Master of Wisdom — an essential core lost to the West and replaced by Jesus, the object of dogma — has been recovered in the sands of Egypt. Over a half century ago, a full Coptic version of the "lost" Gospel of Thomas was discovered at Nag Hammadi among a collection of buried manuscripts. This Gospel, long known by name, but having disappeared from history, was recovered and translated by scholars causing great excitement and much consternation. It portrayed a very different Jesus from the one we have come to know through the centuries.
The Gospel was also in a primitive form — a collection of Logia (also known as Quelle, German for Source) — the written expression of an oral tradition that had been suspected to exist prior to the writing of the canonical Gospels. In Thomas' Gospel, Jesus is presented as a Master of wisdom, dissimilar from the figure of dogma that was later to grow up around his memory. As in the traditional Gospels, he speaks with authority, but in Thomas his sayings are presented without the expected context of a story-line, the narrative supplied by Gospel writers."
~ Lynn Bauman
The Gospel of Thomas - Wisdom of the Twin
The Gospel was also in a primitive form — a collection of Logia (also known as Quelle, German for Source) — the written expression of an oral tradition that had been suspected to exist prior to the writing of the canonical Gospels. In Thomas' Gospel, Jesus is presented as a Master of wisdom, dissimilar from the figure of dogma that was later to grow up around his memory. As in the traditional Gospels, he speaks with authority, but in Thomas his sayings are presented without the expected context of a story-line, the narrative supplied by Gospel writers."
~ Lynn Bauman
The Gospel of Thomas - Wisdom of the Twin
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