(^822) BIBLIOGRAPHY
Part One: Early Wisdom Gospels
Jon Ma. Asgeirsson, Kristin DeTroyer, and Marvin W. Meyer, eds., From Quest to
Q; John Dominic Crossan, The Historical Jesus; Stevan Davies, The Gospel of
Thomas and Christian Wisdom; Robert W. Funk, Honest to Jesus; Ronald R Hock
and Edward N. O'Neil, The Chreia in Ancient Rhetoric; John S. Kloppenborg, The
Formation ofQ; John S. Kloppenborg, Q Parallels; John S. Kloppenborg, Marvin
W. Meyer, Stephen J. Patterson, and Michael G. Steinhauser, Q—Thomas Reader,
John S. Kloppenborg-Verbin, Excavating Q; Burton L. Mack, Logos und Sophia;
Burton L. Mack, The Lost Gospel; Marvin Meyer, The Unknown Sayings of Jesus;
Stephen J. Patterson, James M. Robinson, and Hans-Gebhard Bethge, The Fifth
Gospel; James R. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts; James M. Robinson,
Paul Hoffman, and John S. Kloppenborg, eds., The Critical Edition of Q; James
M. Robinson and Helmut Koester, Trajectories through Early Christianity; Albert
Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus.
- The Gospel of Thomas
Critical editions of the Gospel of Thomas, with introduction, Coptic text, Eng-
lish translation, and notes: Marvin Meyer, The Gospel of Thomas; Helmut
Koester, Bentley Layton, Thomas O. Lambdin, and Harold W. Attridge, "The
Gospel According to Thomas," in Bentley Layton, ed., Nag Hammadi Codex II,
2-j, 1.37-128. The latter volume also includes the Greek fragments of the Gospel
of Thomas, Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1, 654, and 655, along with testimonies in the
church fathers. English translation: Helmut Koester and Thomas O. Lambdin,
"The Gospel of Thomas," in James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library
In English. Scholarly studies: Stevan Davies, The Gospel of Thomas and Christian
Wisdom; Marvin Meyer, Secret Gospels; Stephen J. Patterson, The Gospel of Thomas
and Jesus; Richard Valantasis, The Gospel of Thomas. The Gospel of Thomas has
also attracted a great deal of popular interest, and it was portrayed as a significant
and suppressed collection of sayings of Jesus in the him Stigmata. - The Gospel of John
The books and articles published on the Gospel of John are legion. Representative
scholarly studies: Raymond E. Brown, The Gospel According to John; Rudolf Bult-
mann, The Gospel of John; Ernst Kasemann, The Testament of Jesus. Each of these
important books includes significant reflections on the question of the Gospel of
John and gnosticism. Raymond Brown's commentary is a comprehensive, two-
volume work with excellent, balanced surveys of the literature and discussions of
the issues.