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Author: Simon James Gathercole
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 11
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 4.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 1.243kg
ISBN: 9789004190412
ISBN 10: 9004190414
Pages: 724
Publication Date: 23 May 2014
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'authoritative commentary on the Gospel of Thomas for several decades to come. [...] Gathercole steers readers through a complex web of highly contested issues. [...] In the future, every scholarly work on Thomas will take Gathercole's work both as a starting point and as an able guide.' Paul Foster, University of Edinburgh, The Expository Times' 126 (4), 2015
The most erudite commentary on the Gospel of Thomas to date. [...] an important contribution. Ian Phillip Brown, University of Toronto, Religious Studies Review 42:2 Gathercole steers readers through a complex web of highly contested issues. [...] In the future, every scholarly work on Thomas will take Gathercole's work both as a starting point and as an able guide. Paul Foster, University of Edinburgh, The Expository Times 126:4 All in all, this is an excellent commentary, well worth the cost to purchase and the space it will occupy on a bookshelf. Llewellyn Howes, University of Johannesburg, Neotestamentica 50:3
the most erudite commentary on the Gospel of Thomas to date. [...] an important contribution. - Ian Phillip Brown, University of Toronto, in: Religious Studies Review 42/2 (June 2016) authoritative commentary on the Gospel of Thomas for several decades to come. [...] Gathercole steers readers through a complex web of highly contested issues. [...] In the future, every scholarly work on Thomas will take Gathercole's work both as a starting point and as an able guide. - Paul Foster, University of Edinburgh, in: The Expository Times 126/4 (2015)
Gathercole's style, his soberness, the clear and direct interaction with earlier scholarship, his admirably confident treatment of speculations and traditional theories about the Gospel of Thomas, and, above all, the author's meticulous handling of the critical Greek and Coptic texts and the author's concise and sound conclusions make this book a landmark commentary on this highly controversial and fascinating piece of Christian literature. - Thomas J. Kraus, University of Zurich, in: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism (2017) The most erudite commentary on the Gospel of Thomas to date. - Ian Phillip Brown, University of Toronto, in: Religious Studies Review 42:2 Gathercole steers readers through a complex web of highly contested issues. [...] In the future, every scholarly work on Thomas will take Gathercole's work both as a starting point and as an able guide. - Paul Foster, University of Edinburgh, in: The Expository Times 126:4 All in all, this is an excellent commentary, well worth the cost to purchase and the space it will occupy on a bookshelf. - Llewellyn Howes, University of Johannesburg, in: Neotestamentica 50:3 ....einen Kommentar zum Thomasevangelium [...] der als ein Grundlagen- und Referenzwerk aller weiteren Diskurse zu diesem Zeugnis des fruhen Christentums verstanden werden kann. - Enno Edzard Popkes, Kiel, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 142 (2017) 7-8
Author Information
Simon Gathercole (PhD, 2001) is Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies at the University of Cambridge. He has published extensively in Early Christian Studies, including The Gospel of Judas (OUP, 2007), and The Composition of the Gospel of Thomas (CUP, 2012).
