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Believed to have been written by Didymos Judas Thomas, portions of the
Gospel of St. Thomas were found at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt in the late 1800's. A
complete version was discovered in Coptic (an Egyptian language derived
from the Greek alphabet) at Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945. Today, because of
its more primitive form -- it takes the form of "sayings" -- some scholarship
dates the work to as early as 40 A.D. which would place it before the four
canonical gospels, and some have called it the "fifth Gospel." The
canonized Gospels, which are generally held to have been written about 70
A.D., are considered not to be in their original form but have taken on
embellishments and additions through various versions and translations, a
common pitfall of notoriety and institutionalization.
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