The Gospel of Thomas

I have been watching Bart Ehrman, author of the book Misquoting Jesus and several others, and his podcasts on the textual criticism of the New Testament. I have more than a little familiarity with textual criticism, which might be defined as the investigation of the history of ancient and medieval texts to answer such questions as who wrote a given text, when, and what sources the author used.

Today I watched his podcast on the Gospel of Thomas, then read a translation.

Anyone who can explain why a translator of Charny's Questions might find this interesting gets...my respect? Yes.