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

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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