New Thomas Resources
June 8th, 2009 by Andrew Bernhard under Gospel of Thomas. No Comments.
I’ve just made some significant updates to the Gospel of Thomas Resource Center. I’ve posted scans of all three of the Greek fragments – these come from the plates published in ΛΟΓΙΑ ΙΗΣΟΥ: Sayings of Our Lord from an Early Greek Papyrus (1897) and volume 4 of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (1904).
Following the lead of Paterson Brown over at metalog.org, I’ve annotated the images with saying numbers in the margins. Now quality images of all the extant manuscripts of the Gospel of Thomas are available online and easily accessible from the Manuscript Images section of the resource center.
I have also added one complete article and two complete books about the Greek fragments of the Gospel of Thomas that were published around the end of the nineteenth century. The article is:
Grenfell, Bernard P. “The Oldest Record of Christ’s Life.” McClure’s Magazine, October 1897, 1022-30.
This provides a first-hand account of the discovery of ancient manuscripts at Oxyrhynchus, the largest cache of Greek papyri ever discovered. All three Greek fragments of the Gospel of Thomas come from Oxyrhychus, as do numerous New Testament papyri and other important Christian and classical texts that would otherwise have been lost forever. The complete article and a brief description of it are now available in the Accounts of Manuscript Discoveries section of the resource center.
The two books that have been added are:
Grenfell, Bernard P., and Arthur S. Hunt. ΛΟΓΙΑ ΙΗΣΟΥ: Sayings of Our Lord from an Early Greek Papyrus. London: Henry Frowde, 1897.
Grenfell, Bernard P., and Arthur S. Hunt. New Sayings of Jesus and Fragment of a Lost Gospel from Oxyrhynchus. London: Oxford University Press, 1904.
These books contain the first modern editions of the Greek fragments of the Gospel of Thomas. Oxyrhychus Papyrus 1 was discovered in the first excavation at the site in 1897; Oxyrhynchus Papyri 654 and 655 were discovered during a subsequent excavation in 1904. Both books are available in the Ancient Language Editions section of the resource center.
NOTE: I have included links to both my own scans of the books and those provided by Google Books. If you have decent bandwidth, I recommend downloading my scans (which are larger files) because they are higher resolution and include more material, notably scans of the original covers as well as the plates of Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1.
