Robert M. Price has been studying and teaching (even preaching on) the Gospel of Thomas for many years. It has gradually become clearer and clearer to him. But at the same time, he has been mindful of the danger of making it too clear, reinterpreting it and whittling it down to size just so it won't seem so impenetrable and frustrating. In his commentary on the fifth gospel, Price preserves the balance: he shows how the text need not strike us as strange at all and yet how alien its assumptions are to our way of thinking.

Price also weighs in on the various debates among scholars: is Thomas based on the canonical gospels? Is it completely independent of them? Who wrote it? What is the underlying theology? How old is the book?

Thomas contains close parallels to sayings well known from the conventional gospels, and it is easy to take them for granted and concentrate on the new, esoteric material. The Tommentary does not cheat these passages.

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Edwin Johnson (1842-1901),

English historian, is best known for his Christian historiography, continuing scholarship in the vien of Bruno Bauer, S.A. Naber, and A. Pierson.

Lecture Series; Commentary on the Gospel of Thomas

A line by line / saying by saying commentary by Dr. Robert M. Price of all 114 sayings of the Gospel of Thomas. The recent lecture series offered as a complete download.

18 hours of live audio recordings by Dr. Price.

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A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede

by Albert Schweitzer

Paperback book $25.00 click here to purchase

This is a classic and a MUST HAVE. With a intro by our own Dr. Robert M. Price. I cannot recommend any single volume more highly than this one for the student interested in the study of the "Historical Jesus"

I am not a scholar, or even an academic. I created this edition primarily for myself. But then thought I would make it available to others.

The Making of a Modern Gospel

What is a gospel? And why do I consider the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar to be one? Isn't a gospel by definition one of the books of the Bible? If so, then nothing written in recent centuries could be counted as a gospel. This is because the "canon" of scripture (the official table of contents) was settled back in the fourth century C.E. Who settled the matter? Who decided what writings should be included, excluded? Various synods of bishops meeting here and there in North Africa and Rome. Who gave them the authority to make such a decision? Keep in mind that the Bible is a book many people have lived by and died for, believing the book to be the written Word of God. But no one ever claimed that the voice of God suddenly rang out and told the bishops which books to include. Being an editor of fiction anthologies myself, I know this would make the selection process a lot simpler. But, no, like me, the bishops made their own judgment calls. Did they make the right choices?

by Robert M. Price

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