15 June 2004

Elaine Pagels and Ben Witherington III on Jesus and Paul--Scholarly Smackdown -- Beliefnet.com

This is a very interesting discussion of Gnostic gospels and I was interested to learn that it may well be that the Gospel of Thomas may not deserve to be lumped in with the gnostic writings, it could be earlier and it does not betray normal Gnostic emphases, though in fact it seem that it may not add anything much to the canonical gospels.

Useful still when following up the Da Vinci Code and certain 'NewAge' claims.

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