1) Marvin Meyer
Professor
Marvin W. Meyer was a scholar of religion and a tenured professor at Chapman University, in Orange, California. He was the Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies at Chapman University and Director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute.
2) Elaine Pagels
Professor
Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey, is an American religious historian who writes on the Gnostic Gospels. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University.
3) Nicholas Perrin
Nicholas Perrin is the Franklin S. Dyrness Professor of Biblical Studies at Wheaton College, Illinois. His work focuses on the New Testament and early Christianity. Perrin has published on the Gospel of Thomas and proposed the theory that Thomas is dependent on Tatian's Diatessaron.
Diatessaron of Tatian
Twenty years after Tatian's harmony, Irenaeus expressly proclaimed the authoritative character of the four gospels. It is unclear whether Tatian intended the Diatessaron to supplement or replace the four separate gospels; but both outcomes came to pass in different churches.
Nicholas Perrin claims Thomas relates to the 4 Gospels and that Irenaus in the late first century tried to add Thomas to the Gospels!!
3A) Irenaeus
Cleric
Irenaeus was a Greek cleric noted for his role in guiding and expanding Christian communities in what is now the south of France and, more widely, for the development of Christian theology by combatting heresy and defining orthodoxy.
4)
James M. Robinson
American scholar
James McConkey Robinson was an American scholar who served as Professor Emeritus of Religion at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California.
5)
John D. Turner
Professor
John D. Turner is a professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska. He is well known for his translations of the Nag Hammadi library
6)
Helmut Koester
American-German scholar
Helmut Koester was a German-born American scholar of the New Testament and early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School.
7)
Raymond E. Brown
Raymond Edward Brown SS was an American Catholic priest, a member of the Sulpician Fathers and a [prominent biblical scholar].
These are just 7 of the 20 involved scholars claiming Thomas is not to be considered Gnostic!!
