Apocalypse of Thomas

In the so-called [[Decretum Gelasianum]],* a sixth-century list of books declared to be canonical and noncanonical, an item appears in the Apocryphal Books section entitled “Revelation which is ascribed to Thomas.” Another attestation of this document is found in the Chronicle of Jerome of the Codex Philippsianus No. 1829 in Berlin, in which the circumstances of the giving of this revelation to Thomas are described. Evidence shows that the book is fifth-century and tainted with a Manichaean flavor. It exists in two recensions, a longer and a shorter (ET of both versions is given in M.R. James, The [[Apocryphal New Testament]], 1924); and there are critical comments on the two versions in [[New Testament]] Apocrypha II (ET ed. R. McL. Wilson, 1965, pp. 798ff.). The book based on the canonical Revelation describes the scenes presaging the events of the end- time, and does so according to a schema of seven days.