The Gospel of Thomas and Christian origins : essays on the Fifth Gospel /

The Gospel of Thomas and Christian origins : essays on the Fifth Gospel /

The essays collected in The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Origins offer a series new chapters in the history of Christianity's first century. Stephen J. Patterson, whose work on the Gospel of Thomas has circulated widely for more than two decades, argues that taking this new source seriously w...

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Main Author: Patterson, Stephen J., 1957-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 84.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262416.

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Gospel of Thomas (Coptic Gospel) > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Apocryphal books > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Q hypothesis (Synoptics criticism)
Christianity > Origin.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Philosophy and religion > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.

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Call Number: BS2860.T52 P386 2013

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505 0 0 |a Front Matter -- A Polarizing Artifact -- The View from across the Euphrates -- Jesus Meets Plato: The Theology of the Gospel of Thomas and Middle Platonism -- Platonism and the Apocryphal Origins of Immortality in the Christian Imagination or Why do Christians Have Souls that Go to Heaven? -- The Gospel of (Judas) Thomas and the Synoptic Problem -- The Gospel of Thomas and Historical Jesus Research -- Wisdom in Q and Thomas -- Asceticism in the Gospel of Thomas and Q: The Peculiar Practice of the Early Jesus Tradition -- The Parable of the Catch of Fish: A Brief History -- Apocalypticism or Prophecy and the Problem of Polyvalence: Lessons from the Gospel of Thomas -- Paul and the Jesus Tradition: It is Time for Another Look -- The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Beginnings -- Works Cited -- Indexes. 
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