The Thomas Gospel will widen knowledge—and speculation—about Gnostic doctrine. Part of the Gnostic’s special concern seems to have been self-knowledge, an emphasis that appears at least ...

The gospel opens as Jesus invites people to see.... The Gospel of Thomas also suggests that Jesus is aware of, and criticizing the views of the Kingdom of God as a time or a place that appear in ...

The texts were a collection of 52 Christian and gnostic works that were compiled and written 200-300 CE. Among the Nag Hammadi texts was the Gospel of Thomas. While not being explicitly gnostic ...