Description: In the end, DeConick shows that Thomas is best explained as arising from the fusion of Jewish Mysticism and Hermetic praxis and not as being shaped by gnostic traditions.
Review Quotes:
DeConick offers a serious alternative to the common classification of the Gospel of Thomas as Gnostic and provides a helpful, needed exposition of the role of ascent and the visio Dei in Thomas' anthropogony and soteriology.
--D. Jeffrey Bingham "Journal of Early Christian Studies"