Recovering the original Gospel of Thomas : a history of the gospel and its growth

PART ONE: MAPPING A METHODOLOGY; Chapter 1: The "New" Traditionsgeschichtliche Approach; I. The Historical Contexture of Traditions; II. The Communal Nature of Traditions; III. The Responsive Nature of Traditions; IV. The Shift of Traditions; V. Streams of Traditions; VI. The Transmission of Traditions; Chapter 2: The Engimatic Gospel of Thomas; I. Previously Proposed Compositional Models; A. Literate Model; B. Oral-Literate Model; C. Redaction Model; II. The Rolling Corpus Model; A. Oral Consciousness; B. Multivalency; C. Structure; Chapter 3: The Rolling Gospel of Thomas; I. Principle of Development; A. Development of Form; B. Coherence to Characteristic Vocabulary and Themes; C. Anachronisms; II. Principle of Responsiveness; A. Responses Reflecting General Christian Experiences; B. Responses Reflecting Particular Community Experiences; III. Principle of Constituency; A. Shifts in Composition; B. Shifts in Hermeneutics; PART TWO: RECOVERING THE KERNEL; Chapter 4 An Early Christian Speech Gospel; I. Five Kernel Speeches. A. First Speech: Eschatological Urgency; B. Second Speech: Eschatological Challenges; C. Third Speech: Exclusive Commitment to Jesus; D. Fourth Speech: The Selection of the Worthy Few; E. Fifth Speech: The Imminent Kingdom of God; II. The Prophet-Orator; A. The Prophet in Conservative Christian Judaism; B. The Prophet in Ebionism; C. The Prophet in the Kernel; Chapter 5: The Imminent Apocalypse; I. The Eschatological and Mystical Dimensions of Apocalyptic; II. Apocalyptic Expectations in the Kernel Sayings; A. Unprecedented Chaos; B. Reversal of World Order; C. Destruction of the Temple; D. Final Judgment; III. The Son of Man Tradition; IV. The Origins of the Kernel Gospel; PART THREE: ASSESSING THE ACCRETIONS; Chapter 6: The Collapse of the Apocalypse; I. When the End Did Not Come; II. Accretive Responses to the Non-Event; A. The Fully Present Kingdom on Earth; B. The Primordial Adam and the Encratic Ideal; C. Mysticism; III. The Hermeneutical Shift; Chapter 7: The Restoration of Eden; I. Sexuality in Second Temple Judaism; II. Sexuality in Earliest Christianity; III. Encratism and the Role of Eschatology; IV. Encratism and the Role of Protology; V. The Origins of Thomas' Encratism; Chapter 8: The In-Gathering of Stories; I. The Jewish Mystical Story; A. The Heavenly Man of Light; B. The Radiant Image and Its Loss; C. The Restoration of the Lost Image; II. The Hermetic Story; A. The Fallen Soul; B. The Recovery of the Soul; Chapter 9: The Immanent Apocalypse; I. Thomas' Mysticism; A. The Image of God and the Divine Double; B. The Fallen Condition of the Soul; C. The Path of Liberation; II. The Origins of Thomas' Mysticism; A. Alexandrian Christian Mysticism; B. The Adaptation of the Kernel; Chapter 10: Thomas and Christian Origins.