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The introduction states: "These are the hidden words that the living Jesus spoke
and Didymos Judas Thomas wrote them down." Didymus (Greek) and Thomas
(Aramaic) both mean "twin". Some critical scholars suspect that this reference to
the Apostle Thomas is false, and that therefore the true author is unknown.
The Gospel of Thomas is very different in tone and structure from other New
Testament apocrypha and the four Canonical Gospels. Unlike the canonical Gospels,
it is not a narrative account of the life of Jesus; instead, it consists of logia (sayings)
attributed to Jesus, sometimes stand-alone, sometimes embedded in short dialogues
or parables. The text contains a possible allusion to the death of Jesus in logion 65[9]
(Parable of the Wicked Tenants, paralleled in the Synoptic Gospels), but does not
mention his crucifixion, his resurrection, or the final judgment; nor does it mention
a messianic understanding of Jesus Since its discovery, many scholars have seen it as
evidence in support of the existence of the so-called Q source, which might have
been very similar in its form as a collection of sayings of Jesus without any accounts
of his deeds or his life and death, a so-called "sayings gospel".
Bishop Eusebius included it among a group of books that he believed to be not only
spurious, but "the fictions of heretics". However, it is not clear whether he was
referring to this Gospel of Thomas or one of the other texts attributed to Thomas.