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Hidden Sayings of Jesus: Words Attributed to Jesus Outside the Four Gospels
 
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Hidden Sayings of Jesus: Words Attributed to Jesus Outside the Four Gospels [Paperback]

William G. Morrice (Author)
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April 1, 1997
This is a unique collection of the sayings attributed to Jesus that are not recorded in the four biblical gospels. They have been specially translated for this book from Coptic, Greek, and Arabic sources, drawing particularly on the Gospel of Thomas in the Nag Hammadi Library.

Hidden Sayings of Jesus forms a reliable guide to the range of sayings, introducing them for a broad, non-specialist audience and setting them in their historical and scriptural background with authoritative quotations from scholars. Each saying is given in full, graded as to its possible authenticity and accompanied by a short commentary. William Morrice examines what they can tell us about Jesus and his early followers and why they have aroused so much interest today.


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The Reverend Dr. William Morrice taught in the Department of Theology at Durham University from 1975 to 1995.


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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers (April 1, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1565632893
  • ISBN-13: 978-1565632899
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,259,578 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent study of alleged quotes..., September 11, 1999
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These are my thoughts that I wrote" This work is a highly interesting one, in that the author carefully brings alleged sayings under a microscope. Focusing mainly on the 'Gospel of Thomas' which is not even a gospel, but a group of sayings, he examines each one carefully, bringing previous scholarship to bear. Since these are sayings and not a narrative, some of the sayings may have come from one of the four gospels, from eyewitnesses, from later writers, from an oral tradition, from the alleged "Q" or from opponents to the faith. Morrice informs us that the Gospel of Thomas may not even be of Gnostic origin. The original to this gospel may have come from Syria, and from a non-Gnostic Syriac Christian tradition having roots in Edessa. Along with 'Thomas' are other writings such as the Acts of Thomas, the Diatessaron, and maybe the Odes of Solomon. These all contain an extreme form of asceticism known as encratism and do not contain the usual Gnostic language and definitions. This discussion alone is worth the price of the book. Some of the Thomas sayings of Jesus are almost word for word renditions of well known 'four gospel' passages." CriticalReviews.com
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