An Aberrant Gnostic

    With things getting exciting in 1957 regarding the potential discovery of A long lost "Fifth Gospel," a Catholic Biblical researcher tells the public to slow down and "pump the breaks." By slow down, I mean discount the NHL discovery and the alleged Gospel of Thomas . Famed Dead Sea Scroll researcher, Msgr. Patrick W. Skehan felt it prudent to tell the public that to "label this work the Lost Fifth Gospel is to falsify its place in history."  How so? For starters, Skehan mentions that the preliminary work and reporting of Professor Henri C. Puech regarding the NHL has nothing to do with St. Thomas.  Instead, the 43 sayings are "old chestnuts," and were sayings quoted by third century writers Origen and Clement of Alexandria.  Old chestnut, for those curious, is defined by the Google machine as a "subject, idea, or joke that been discussed or repeated so often that it is not funny any more." Ouch. Skeban also discounts the NHL as be...

  Nothing can grab a newspaper reader's attention more so than mentioning the United States dollar.  In an article titled "Egyptian Scholars in Studies of Ancient Religious Scrolls," per the The Marion Star newspaper, dated December 26, 1956, the USD is mentioned straight away.  As are all the articles from this time period in respect to this news item regarding the NHL.  What's the number, you might ask?  I'll let the Associated Press speak to it... Eleven years ago an Egyptian peasant sold for nine dollars to the son of a Coptic priest a collection of musty, unimportant-looking documents discovered in an old earthenware jar while digging for fertilizer. They may be worth a fortune. Curious that the number 911 is tucked in here, and I'm sure I could go on and on about that possible red herring, but I'm going to skip it and call it coincidence.  I do find it fascinating that the unimportant looking documents containing the The Gospel According to Thomas ...

  Logia, according to the Google machine, is a word borrowed from Latin and Ancient Greek.  It it implies communications of divine origin. Maybe it originated from the abyss, or deities, gods, monsters, aliens...who knows, but logia is communicated to someone from something .  Curious, indeed. According to an article included in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa The Gazette, dated October 9, 1956, the Nag Hammadi library is known as "Logia."  Or even more acutely, the "Sayings of Jesus."  The article returns to an early hero of the NHL saga, Professor Henri Puech, and his identification of a"Fifth Gospel of Jesus."  The Gospel is of course the Gospel of Thomas...and Puech mentions the famous opening line of said Gospel, "These hidden words which Jesus the Living spoke..."   The article further mentions that this unique set of Logia is linked to the previously discovered Logia at Oxyrhynchus, circa 1897.   The article further mentions that that when...