Stevan
Davies is professor of religious studies at College Misericordia in
Pennsylvania, and has studied the
Gospel
of Thomas
for over twenty years. He is the author of several other books.
In 1945, a Coptic document containing sayings attributed to Jesus was discovered deep within an ancient Egyptian cave. This "lost gospel," the Gospel of Thomas, was written at the same time as the canonical Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and is now considered one of the greatest...