No Prophet is Accepted in His Hometown: Gospel of Thomas as Witness to Ancient Pre-Gospel Tradition

Abstract

Thanks to redactional layers of a pericope speaking of a prophet's rejection apparent in the versions of Mk and Mt, independent testimonies can be seen in L and GTh, which lead us up to the old literary roots of the written Gospels.

Keywords

• Early Christian literature
• Apocrypha
• Gospel according to Mark
• Gospel according to Thomas
• redaction criticism