The Non-canonical Christian Texts pages provide links to extensive resources on non-canonical texts related to the New Testament. The Gospel of Thomas has its own page because of the extensive resources available on this. There is a separate section on The New Testament Gateway's Early Church page on The Formation of the Canon.

Texts and Web Sites Gospel of Thomas

Texts and Web Sites

The Non-Canonical Homepage
A site with a wealth of texts including apocryphal NT Gospels, Acts, apocalypses and more. By using older translations that are now out of copyright, this site is able to make available a lot of material.

Gnostic Society Library
A remarkable resource with lots of texts in English translation, focusing specially on Nag Hammadi. The Gnosis Archive is also searchable.

Bibel der Häretiker
By Gerd Lüdemann und Martina Janßen: German translation, introduction and notes to the Nag Hammadi texts. An excellent site.

Unterdrückte Gebete
Gnostische Spiritualität im frühen Christentum, by Gerd Lüdemann & Martina Janßen (Stuttgart: Radius-Verl, 1997): full German text of the book of Gnostic prayers, hymns and other material from the beginnings of Christianity.

SBL Christian Apocrypha Section
Developed in association with the Christian Apocrypha Section of the Society of Biblical Literature: a good jumping-off point with a handful of useful links.

Jesus of Nazareth in Early Christian Gospels
By Andrew Bernhard: this fine web resource features introductions, fresh translations, bibliography and links on canonical, non-canonical and hypothetical gospels. Strongly recommended.

Apocryphal Acts Homepage
By István Czachesz: web resource focussing on the Apocryphal Acts, with special reference to the Acts of Paul, the Acts of Peter, the Acts of John, the Acts of Andrew, and the Acts of Thomas. A growing resources currently featuring links and bibliography.

Apostolic Commission Narratives in the Canonical and Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles (New URL)
By István Czachesz: full text in PDF files of a book forthcoming from Peeters (2002).

The Secret Gospel of Mark Homepage
By Wieland Willker: useful material in both English and German. It includes photographs from Morton Smith's book and now the full Greek text.

The Papyrus Egerton 2 Homepage
A remarkable resource also from Wieland Willker featuring a wealth of useful information on the fragments of a lost gospel known as Papyrus Egerton 2 -- photographs, the texts in Greek with reconstructions, German and English translations, comprehensive bibliography and the full text of Bell and Skeat.

The Whole Bible
Analysis of the Canonical and Apocryphal New Testament Scriptures, by Geoff Trowbridge: bibliography and good introductions to many non-canonical texts.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol X
The full text of the volume of the Early Church Fathers series that deals with the Gospel of Peter, Tatian's Diatessaron, Apocalypses and Romances, and the Epistles of Clement.

Deuterocanonical References in the New Testament
By James Akin: useful list of possible references to texts from Apocryphal books in the New Testament.