For a long time almost two thousand years a lot of people used to think that the only resources of tradition about the Jesus the Christ and his disciples could be found in the four gospels present in the New Testament. But then there was a discovery made out of nowhere at Nag Hammadi back in the mid nineteenth century, and more than fifty ancient Christian texts proved what most of the Church fathers used to say long time ago, that Matthew, Mark, John and Luke are only a few of the gospels that used to circulate among the early Christian groups in the old days. This has proven to be true after the discoveries of Gospel of Judas, Gospel of Thomas and Gospel of Mary to name a few.
It is a common view of most of the dominant academics that the Gospel of Thomas that we see now days was actually composed in Syria, where as their exact place or even exact region is still unknown.
When you read the Gospel of Thomas you will be able to find a collection of random sayings that are tied together without any unifying plan underlying the composition as a whole.
The Gospel of Thomas we can say comes very close to the theological agenda of the early Syriac literature of the second-third centuries.
As there are some parallels that one can find between many of the sayings that we find in the Gospel of Thomas and the other gospels, some of the religious scholars believe that Gospel of Thomas is also based on the Q source or some even day that it is Q itself. This is in fact a hypothesis since there is no proof that a Q source ever existed.
