Thomas (while fascinating and arguably the only book that should have been kept in the Bible.) isn't the earliest Gospel, the 40CE date is where some of the Sayings in the book may date from. I don't think I've read anyone who claimed a date before 100CE for Thomas as a complete work, even proponents of it as a majority early text or a branch off of Q.
Also, I'm not sure you can say Mark or the Q source doesn't have the same early date, if the initial origin of the individual sayings or parables within is the metric used.
Finally wherever that's from they're wrong about Matthew, pretty sure P64/67 predates P37, admittedly dating is controversial, but dates range from 66AD to 250AD.
Finally wherever that’s from they’re wrong about Matthew, pretty sure P64/67 predates P37, admittedly dating is controversial, but dates range from 66AD to 250AD.
the image is from 2016 and maybe the scholarship has changed since then.
Thomas (while fascinating and arguably the only book that should have been kept in the Bible.) isn't the earliest Gospel, the 40CE date is where some of the Sayings in the book may date from. I don't think I've read anyone who claimed a date before 100CE for Thomas as a complete work, even proponents of it as a majority early text or a branch off of Q.
Also, I'm not sure you can say Mark or the Q source doesn't have the same early date, if the initial origin of the individual sayings or parables within is the metric used.
Finally wherever that's from they're wrong about Matthew, pretty sure P64/67 predates P37, admittedly dating is controversial, but dates range from 66AD to 250AD.
the image is from 2016 and maybe the scholarship has changed since then.