Talk:Gospel of Thomas

message: Whether or not it was written in 60 or 240, isn't it important how early these words were uttered? Oral tradition back then was gospel as common people had the power to memorize entire books amd book length speeches, since there was no such thing as mass production or printing press. If it was ever spoken incorrectly in front of an audience, they would refute it and say "no, your telling it wrong, its this..." What has happened to the human mind since the printing press is staggering, and now texting or txting and students not being able to write entire pages of essay without without updating their facebook status in between, leaves teachers baffled at broken looking papers. I am saying with modern advances we have traded in certain abilities.
Therefor it is possible that even if it was written down as late as 200 years after Christs death, it might make no difference on its authenticity. Invalidations would be if it changes who Christ IS or if Thomas never said those things. Not the dates of being written.
That said I have never read it and am now curious. But someone needs to point out the importance of spoken word back then.
Interesting point about the oral traditions. Just to add to that is the discusion about the 'sayings' Original language. The coptic version may indeed have been written later and been a translation of an earlier Koine Greek text which again could be based on Aramaic sayings. Any editing should make distinctions between these and how dates are affected accordingly. The Gospel is well worth reading by itself and when seen in the light of the later collection of New testament gospels, particularly John there has been some work on whether John was actually partly written to refute some of the sayings and therefore to exclude the inherent beliefs of Thomasine Christians from what became post Nicene Christianity.  Si noah (talk) 17:59, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date Of Oral Tradition 

message: Hello! I noticed the Google preview of this page gives a 60 A.D. to 140 A.D. date range, as opposed to the 60 A.D. to 250 A.D. date range written (and backed up by citations) in the article itself. I searched "Gospel of Thomas date" and this inaccurate 60-140 date from Wikipedia was the first result. I'm not sure how to correct this, so I'd appreciate it if someone else could do so!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.93.215.128 (talk) 17:00, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The prose of the article is sufficiently clear: most scholars date it to between 60 and 140, while some date it as late as 250. We need do nothing to the article; the Google search results are Google's problem. —C.Fred (talk) 17:27, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google Preview of Date Range Inaccurate 

message: Under the religion part, it says Christanity (Thomasine), but it links to the Saint Thomas Christians in India, these two groups are unrelated, but I'm not sure if I should link it to the "Thomasine" Christians that we know existed in the 1st and 2nd century AD in the Eastern Mediterranean, because scholars are unsure if the Gospel of Thomas was even revered by this community. Thoughts? Maybe just removing the hyperlink entirely, or adding a "possibly?" to the proper Thomasine hyperlink TablemannDanny231 (talk) 00:55, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hyperlink to the "Thomasine" page