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Research atlas for early Christianity. Claims are tagged attested, traditional, or disputed. Copyrighted full texts, including CCEL editions, are not included.

Texts

surviving

Gospel of Thomas

1st–2nd c. (date strongly debated) · Coptic; Greek fragments

Groups:

Complete in Coptic, with three Greek papyrus fragments from Oxyrhynchus. It is not tied to one sect: Hippolytus says the Naassenes used it and Cyril of Jerusalem attributes it to Manichaeans (both hostile). It is often placed in a Syrian 'Thomas' tradition.

Where the manuscripts are now

  • Coptic Museum, Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

    NHC II,2

    Nag Hammadi Codex II

  • Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK

    P. Oxy. 1 (MS. Gr. th. e. 7)

  • British Library, London, UK

    P. Oxy. 654

  • Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA

    P. Oxy. 655

Sources

Mark M. Mattison n.d.. Public-domain dedication by translator

DeChurched Atlas — Early Christianity as history, from every source