(March 20, 2019 at 9:37 am)Drich Wrote: when was this gospel of thomas written/found? oh that's right 1945 AD matter of fact a whole library of gnostic gospels where found then. most of which date back to 500 years after christ. while the thomas gospel is said to date to 1300's.. doesn't mean it is not older, it's just the 1300s copy is the oldest intact version.
Well if you really care to know a Coptic manuscript of the book was discovered in 1945 while three fragments of a Greek manuscript had been found earlier at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt in 1898 and 1903. The earliest Greek fragment can be dated to the early third century CE. Thus, the Gospel of Thomas must have been composed prior to 200 CE.
