Grenfell, Bernard P. "The Oldest Record of Christ's Life." McClure's Magazine, October 1897, 1022-30.
Dart, John, and Ray Riegert. The Gospel of Thomas: Unearthing the Lost Words of Jesus. Berkeley, Calif.: Seastone, 1998 [1st ed.]; 2000 [2nd ed.].
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A lively account by two journalists of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library in Egypt in 1945 and the subsequent struggles of Western scholars to bring the complete Gospel of Thomas and other ancient texts to light despite blood feuds, mysterious deaths, sketchy antiquities dealers, and a series of tumultuous political crises and wars in the Middle East; also includes a complete translation of the Gospel of Thomas and an introduction by John Dominic Crossan.
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Ancient Language Editions
Grenfell, Bernard P., and Arthur S. Hunt. ΛΟΓΙΑ ΙΗΣΟΥ: Sayings of Our Lord from an Early Greek Papyrus. London: Henry Frowde, 1897.
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The first modern of edition of Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1, which preserves most of sayings 26-33 in Greek; includes quality plates of both the front and the back of the papyrus, the Greek text, an English translation, and commentary.
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Grenfell, Bernard P., and Arthur S. Hunt. New Sayings of Jesus and Fragment of a Lost Gospel from Oxyrhynchus. London: Oxford University Press, 1904.
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The first modern edition of Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 654, which preserves parts of the prologue and sayings 1-7 of the Gospel of Thomas, and Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 655, which preserves parts of sayings 24, 36-39; includes a cropped black and white image of Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 654, the Greek text of both papyri, English translations, and commentary; also reprints the Greek text of Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1 with accompanying English translation, but no commentary.
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Evelyn-White, Hugh G. The Sayings of Jesus from Oxyrhynchus. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1920.
Guillaumont, A., H.-Ch. Puech, G. Quispel, W. Till, and Yassah 'Abd al Masih. The Gospel According to Thomas. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1959.
Fitzmyer, Joseph A. "The Oxyrhynchus Logoi of Jesus and the Coptic Gospel According to Thomas." Theological Studies 20 (1959): 505-60.
Leipoldt, Johannes. Das Evangelium nach Thomas: koptisch und deutsch. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1967.
Layton, Bentley. Nag Hammadi Codex II, 2-7: Together with XIII, 2*, Brit. Lib. Or. 4926(1), and P. Oxy. 1, 654, 655. Vol. 1. Leiden: Brill, 1989.
Kloppenborg, John S., Marvin W. Meyer, Stephen J. Patterson, and Michael G. Steinhauser. Q-Thomas Reader. Sonoma, Calif.: Polebridge, 1990.
Eccles, Lance. Introductory Coptic Reader: Selections from the Gospel of Thomas with Full Grammatical Explanations. Kensington, MD: Dunwoody Press, 1991.
Meyer, Marvin. The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1992.
Aland, Kurt. Synopsis quattuor Evangeliorum. 15th ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1997.
Lührmann, Dieter, and Egbert Schlarb. Fragmente apokryph gewordener Evangelien in griechischer und lateinischer Sprache. Marburg: N.G. Elwert Verlag, 2000.
Bernhard, Andrew. Other Early Christian Gospels: A Critical Edition of the Surviving Greek Manuscripts. London: T & T Clark International, 2006.
Scholarly Commentaries
Grant, Robert, and David Noel Freedman. The Secret Sayings of Jesus. Garden City: Doubleday, 1960.
McArthur, Harvey K. "The Dependence of the Gospel of Thomas on the Synoptic Gospels." Expository Times 71 (1960): 286-87.
Wilson, R. McL. Studies in the Gospel of Thomas. London: Mowbray, 1960.
Montefiore, Hugh. "A Comparison of the Parables of the Gospel According to Thomas and of the Synoptic Gospels." New Testament Studies 7 (1961): 220-48.
Grobel, Kendrick. "How Gnostic Is the Gospel of Thomas?" New Testament Studies 8, no. 4 (1962): 367-73.
Schrage, Wolfgang. Das Verhältnis des Thomas-Evangeliums zur Synoptischen Tradition und zu den koptischen Evangelien-Übersetzungen. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur gnostischen Synoptikerdeutung. Berlin: Töpelmann, 1964.
Davies, Stevan L. The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom. New York: Seabury Press, 1983.
Patterson, Stephen J. The Gospel of Thomas and Jesus. Sonoma, Calif.: Polebridge Press, 1993.
Riley, Gregory J. Resurrection Reconsidered: Thomas and John in Controversy. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.
DeConick, April D.. Seek to See Him: Ascent and Vision Mysticism in the Gospel of Thomas. Leiden: Brill, 1996.
Valantasis, Richard. The Gospel of Thomas. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Uro, Risto. Thomas: Seeking the Historical Context of the Gospel of Thomas. London: T & T Clark, 2003.
DeConick, April D. The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation: With a Commentary and New English Translation of the Complete Gospel. London: T & T Clark, 2006.
DeConick, April D.. Recovering the Original Gospel of Thomas: A History of the Gospel and Its Growth. New York: T&T Clark, 2005.
Asgeirsson, Jon Ma, April D. DeConick, and Risto Uro. Thomasine Traditions in Antiquity: The Social and Cultural World of the Gospel of Thomas. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
Devotional Literature
Osho. The Mustard Seed: Commentaries on the Fifth Gospel of Saint Thomas. 6th ed. Rockport, Mass.: Element, 1994.
Amundsen, Christian. Insights from the Secret Teachings of Jesus: The Gospel of Thomas. Fairfield, IA: Sunstar Publishing, 1999.
