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| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xiii |
| The Gospel of Thomas in Historical Perspective | p. 1 |
| Discoveries in the Desert | p. 4 |
| Three Crucial Questions | p. 7 |
| What Are They Saying About the Date of Thomas? | p. 9 |
| The Gospel of Thomas as Second-Century Text | p. 11 |
| The Gospel of Thomas Contemporary with the Synoptic Gospels | p. 17 |
| Th... MORE | p. 20 |
| Traditions, Layers, and Accretions in Thomas | p. 24 |
| Conclusion | p. 27 |
| What Are They Saying About Thomas's Relationship to the Canonical Gospels? | p. 29 |
| Thomas and the Synoptics | p. 30 |
| Thomas Dependent on the Synoptics | p. 31 |
| Thomas Independent of the Synoptics | p. 35 |
| Thomas and the Gospel of Luke | p. 39 |
| Thomas and the Gospel of John | p. 41 |
| Thomas Dependent on John | p. 41 |
| John Responds to Thomas: The Community-Conflict Hypothesis | p. 43 |
| Responses to the Community-Conflict Hypothesis | p. 50 |
| Thomas and the Diatessaron | p. 52 |
| Excursus: Thomas and Paul | p. 54 |
| Conclusion | p. 58 |
| What Are They Saying About Thomas's Theological Outlook? | p. 59 |
| Gnosticism and Wisdom in Thomas | p. 60 |
| Thomas and Asceticism | p. 66 |
| Thomas and Mysticism | p. 69 |
| Thomas and Platonism | p. 72 |
| Conclusion | p. 75 |
| The Gospel of Thomas and the Historical Jesus | p. 77 |
| John Paul Meier's A Marginal Jew | p. 78 |
| The Jesus Seminar | p. 80 |
| John Dominic Crossan | p. 83 |
| Conclusion | p. 85 |
| Conclusion | p. 86 |
| Glossary | p. 88 |
| Notes | p. 90 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 114 |
| Index | p. 119 |
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