It is hard to say what the author of the Gospel of Thomas thought of the Old Testament, for the simple reason that he ignores it, entirely. On the other hand, the embrace of the Hebrew Scriptures – as God’s testimony concerning His beloved Son – was the hermeneutical and theological basis of the rule…
The Rev. Dr. David Ney is the Associate Professor of Church History at Trinity Anglican Seminary and the director of the Robert E. Webber Center. He is the co-editor of All Thy Lights Combine: Figural Reading in the Anglican Tradition and author of The Quest to Save the Old Testament: Mathematics, Hieroglyphs and Providence in Enlightenment England.
