"One need not undertake a very close reading of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke to recognize that they have much in common. But what are the origins of their literary relationship? The nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw considerable energy devoted to this question. Early hypotheses supposed a primitive proto-Gospel to have been the source for all three Synoptics, but later theories envisioned two sources--an early version of Ma ..."
"Scholars have long been agreed that there is a single source for the gospels, which they refer to as 'Q'. This text challenges these assumptions and offers alternatives."
"What is The Judas Gospel? Does it tell us anything true about Jesus or Judas? Nicholas Perrin offers a helpful assessment of The Gospel of Judas, released by the National Geographic Society in the spring of 2006. Not a gospel at all, he gives a brief history of its origin and discovery, an overview of its contents, and an appraisal of its historical value for first-century conclusions about Jesus and Judas and for second-century Gnosti ..."
Thomas and Tatian(1st Edition) The Relationship Between the Gospel of Thomas and the Diatessaron (Academia Biblica (Society of Biblical Literature) (Paper)) by NicholasPerrin Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2002 by Scholars Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-58983-045-5, ISBN: 1-58983-045-8
"The relationship between the Coptic "Gospel of Thomas" and the synoptic gospels has been a matter of long-standing debate. Some maintain that the sayings of Jesus in Thomas reflect a line of transmission independent of the synoptic tradition; others contend that the Coptic collection is finally a reworking of the Greek synoptic gospels. This book proposes a third possibility: namely, that the "Gospel of Thomas" depends on a second-centu ..."
The Judas Gospel by NicholasPerrin Paperback, Published 2006 by Ivp Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-6541-3, ISBN: 0-8308-6541-1
Thomas and Tatian The Relationship Between the Gospel of Thomas and the Diatessaron (Academia Biblica, 5) by NicholasPerrin Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2003 by Brill Academic Pub ISBN-13: 978-90-04-12710-4, ISBN: 90-04-12710-0
"The relationship between the Coptic "Gospel of Thomas" and the synoptic gospels has been a matter of long-standing debate. Some maintain that the sayings of Jesus in Thomas reflect a line of transmission independent of the synoptic tradition; others contend that the Coptic collection is finally a reworking of the Greek synoptic gospels. This book proposes a third possibility: namely, that the "Gospel of Thomas" depends on a second-centu ..."