Gospel of Thomas and Q

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>POOBAH

>This brings us back to a point you refused to answer back in the ole

>martyred apostle debate. Jason, you are quick to criticize us poor

>unbelievers for being hyperskeptical in dissing the testimony of Josephus,

>Clement & Eusebius, and yet here you are claiming that the Gospel of Thomas

>isn't really by the individual that tradition says it was?


CARTER
On the basis that Thomas would have been long dead by the time GoT was
composed.
Sheesh....

POOBAH
Well, that's what is in dispute isn't it? Given that the earliest scraps of
manuscripts of the Gospels are at least decades after the supposed events,
and the earliest references a century later, I could make the same claim.

I am sure you probably don't accept the arguments for a late 2nd century
authorship for 2nd Peter & Jude, or non-Pauline authorship of the pastoral
epistles, so why do you accept the same for the GoT?

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