Jesus: gMark's Messianic Pretender as Aristotle's Tragic Hero

[John V]

There is a growing consensus that the so-called Gnostic "gospel of Thomas" is the earliest xtian gospel being little more than a collection of sayings.

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl_thomas.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_T...omposition
Scholars generally fall into one of two main camps: an "early camp" favoring a date for the "core" of between the years 50 and 100, before or approximately contemporary with the composition of the canonical gospels and a "late camp" favoring a date in the 2nd century, after composition of the canonical gospels. The vast majority of mainstream scholars fall in to the "late" camp[33][34]