The Gospel of Thomas: 114 Sayings You've Never Heard
In December 1945, an Egyptian farmer named Muhammad Ali was digging for fertilizer near the town of Nag Hammadi when his mattock struck something solid. He’d found a sealed earthenware jar containing thirteen leather-bound codices. Inside those codices were texts that had been hidden for over sixteen centuries, including a document that would change how scholars understood early Christianity. It’s called the Gospel of Thomas. And it contains 114 sayings attributed to Jesus that don’t appear in the Bible. ...