 | The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus by Marvin Meyer
Buy new: $15.59 / Used from: $2.70 The most authoritative translation today. Before Pursah's kernel of Thomas was published in Your Immortal Reality, she had also recommended this version to Gary Renard.
Beautiful edition too!
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 | The Disappearance of the Universe: Straight Talk About Illusions, Past Lives, Religion, Sex, Politics, and the Miracles of Forgiveness by Gary R. Renard
Buy new: $11.41 / Used from: $6.75 Here Pursah discusses 22 Thomas sayings at some length, spread throughout the book, and begins to show the consistency of the thought system with ACIM, and she suggests we can pretty much figure out which 70 of the 114 sayings are actually authentic.
In the second book she provides them anyway, along with some relevant editorial revisions.
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 | Your Immortal Reality: How to Break the Cycle of Birth and Death by Gary Renard
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $1.00 The source for the Pursah version of the Thomas Gospel. Her idea of the authentic 'kernel'.
Offers no discussions of the sayings at all, suggesting instead we should become our own ministers.
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 | A Course in Miracles, Combined Volume: Text, Workbook for Students, and Manual for Teachers by Foundation for Inner Peace
Buy used from: $24.50 For good measure the Course should be on this list.. of Course.
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 | The Gnostic Discoveries: The Impact of the Nag Hammadi Library by Marvin Meyer
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.48 This is a very good general introduction to both the history and meaning of the Nag Hammadi materials, including the Thomas Gospel.
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 | The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus by Robert W. Funk
Buy new: $21.28 / Used from: $9.75 Good source for what historical scholarship concludes about the authenticity of the Thomas sayings, producing an insightful listing that is wildly divergent from the conclusions of Pursah's version in Gary Renard's "Your Immortal Reality."
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 | The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity by Hyam Maccoby
Buy used from: $3.96 Priceless historical analysis of how Paul invented Christianity, which in light of what we now know about the Thomas Gospel, and the Q tradition, becomes only that much more plausible.
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 | The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth (Little Books of Wisdom) by Thomas Jefferson
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $16.95 Thomas Jefferson with scissors, glue and intuition, created his own take on the Jesus sayings (teachings) that seemed authentic to him. From ca. 1820, a good 10 years before serious research into the sayings tradition, and 70 years before the first discovery of the Thomas fragments in Greek. 75% correspondence to Thomas.
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 | Sayings Gospel Q Greek English by James McConkey Robinson
Buy new: $21.00 / Used from: $20.00 Since the Thomas Gospel in fact substantiated the existence of a sayings tradition, the Q research has really taken off in recent years, and it may be helpful to take a peak at this.
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 | Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels
Buy used from: $2.87 This book has been a huge stimulus to a serious interest in the Thomas Gospel, and at least opened the door wider for a general audience to understand that a very different Jesus speaks to us here than the one we might have thought we knew from Sunday School.
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 | Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $9.37 Great introduction to the wide variety of Christian beliefs in the first few centuries, before anything resembling Christianity emerged, helped along infamously by the Emperor Constantine.
Unfortunately Ehrman is too Christian, and while he nicely summarizes the teachings of Thomas, he cannot take them seriously and dismisses the book as a fabrication.
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 | Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Plus) by Bart D. Ehrman
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $7.74 This is a great way for the general reader to get an understanding of distortion in the tradition about Jesus.
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 | Closing the Circle: Pursah's Gospel of Thomas and A Course in Miracles by Rogier Fentener van Vlissingen
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $6.98 Well, can I put my own book on my own list? I guess so. I started this list while working on this book. So, somehow it all comes together for me in the book.
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