Bible Review

Hugh Montefiore, “A Comparison of the Parables of the Gospel According to Thomas and the Synoptic Gospels,” New Testament Studies (1960/61), pp. 220–248; republished in Thomas and the Evangelists, Studies in Biblical Theology 35, ed. Montefiore and H.E.W. Turner (London: SCM, 1962).

Oscar Cullman, “Das Thomasevangelium und die Frage nach dem Alter der in ihm enthaltenen Tradition,” Theologische Literaturzeitung 85 (1960), pp. 321–334.

Gilles quispel, “The Gospel of Thomas and New Testament,” Vigiliae Christianae 11 (1957), pp. 189–207. Quispel has defended and elaborated his hypothesis in a number of articles that were published in subsequent years.

Ernst Haenchen, “Literatur zum Thomasevangelium,” Theologische Rundschau 27 (1961/62), pp. 147–178, 306–338, a critical survey of the first publications on the Gospel of Thomas; and Die Botschaft des Thomas-Evangeliums (Berlin: Topelmann, 1961), his translation and commentary.

Robert M. Grant, “Notes on the Gospel of Thomas,” Vigiliae Christianae 13 (1959), pp. 170–180; Grant followed this article with a book co-authored with David Noel Freedman, The Secret Sayings of Jesus (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960).

A new edition of these Greek texts, by Harold W. Attridge, is now available in Nag Hammadi Codex II, 2–7, Nag Hammadi Studies 20, ed. Bentley Layton (Leiden: Brill, 1989).

Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1 preserves the Greek original of Gospel of Thomas, Sayings 28–33; Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 654, the first seven sayings; and Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 655, Sayings 37–40 of this gospel.

They were published by B.P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt in a series of notices by the Egypt Exploration Fund, London: LOGIA LESOU: Sayings of Our Lord (1897); New Sayings of Jesus and Fragment of a Lost Gospel from Oxyrhynchus (1904); The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part IV (1904), pp. 22–28. The literature discussing these fragments is listed in Hennecke and Schneemelcher, New Testament Apocrypha, vol. 1, pp. 99, 105, 110–111.