VANGELO DI TOMMASO – nuova versione - AUDIOLIBRO

Given the many technical criticisms leveled at the first version, here is a second, hopefully better one. Translated from Wikipedia The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) is a non-canonical gospel of sayings. It was discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in December 1945 among a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi Library. Scholars speculate that the works were buried in response to a letter from Bishop Athanasius declaring a strict canon of Christian scripture. Scholars have proposed dates of composition between 60 CE and 140 CE. The Coptic text, the second of seven contained in what modern scholars have designated Codex II, consists of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus. Nearly two-thirds of these sayings are similar to those found in the canonical gospels, and its first edition contains more than 80% of parallels, while some scholars speculate that the remaining sayings were added by the Gnostic tradition. Its place of origin may have been Syria, where the Thomas tradition was strong. The introduction states: "These are the hidden words spoken by the living Jesus and written by Didymus Judas Thomas." Didymus (Greek) and Thomas (Aramaic) both mean "twin."