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This is an entirely new entry -- it is adapted from a version which, some time ago, I wrote for the (since greatly discredited) Conservapedia, but I hope it can find a far ore congenial home here. [[User:Russell Potter|Russell Potter]] 21:02, 29 April 2007 (CDT)
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This is just a start for an entirely new entry -- it is heavily adapted from a version which, some time ago, I wrote for the (since greatly discredited) Conservapedia under the pseudonym "Boethius", but I hope it can find a far more congenial home here. [[User:Russell Potter|Russell Potter]] 21:02, 29 April 2007 (CDT)
 
:How about a link to the text? --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 13:20, 4 June 2007 (CDT)
 
::Would be great, to do, but the only online "translations" I know of are at least loosely based on the copyrighted edition.  I'll look about anew. [[User:Russell Potter|Russell Potter]] 14:17, 4 June 2007 (CDT)
 
:I believe you might be thinking of the Gospel of Judas where the copyrighted version has generated some controversy. I have added a link to the "Early Christian Writings" web site section on Thomas which has a wealth of on-line material on the Gospel of Thomas. [[User:James F. Perry|James F. Perry]] 18:44, 4 June 2007 (CDT)
 
::No, actually -- though I have copies of nearly all the Gnostic gospels in various editions -- but thanks for the link, this looks like an independent translation, just what we needed!  What I had meant earlier was sites such as [http://www.thethomasgospel.com/ this] one, which is largely a paraphrase of translation given in the  Harper & Row hardcover edition of 1959. [[User:Russell Potter|Russell Potter]] 22:41, 4 June 2007 (CDT)

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This is just a start for an entirely new entry -- it is heavily adapted from a version which, some time ago, I wrote for the (since greatly discredited) Conservapedia under the pseudonym "Boethius", but I hope it can find a far more congenial home here. Russell Potter 21:02, 29 April 2007 (CDT)

How about a link to the text? --Larry Sanger 13:20, 4 June 2007 (CDT)
Would be great, to do, but the only online "translations" I know of are at least loosely based on the copyrighted edition. I'll look about anew. Russell Potter 14:17, 4 June 2007 (CDT)
I believe you might be thinking of the Gospel of Judas where the copyrighted version has generated some controversy. I have added a link to the "Early Christian Writings" web site section on Thomas which has a wealth of on-line material on the Gospel of Thomas. James F. Perry 18:44, 4 June 2007 (CDT)
No, actually -- though I have copies of nearly all the Gnostic gospels in various editions -- but thanks for the link, this looks like an independent translation, just what we needed! What I had meant earlier was sites such as this one, which is largely a paraphrase of translation given in the Harper & Row hardcover edition of 1959. Russell Potter 22:41, 4 June 2007 (CDT)