TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aasgaard,Reidar
TI  - The childhood of Jesus: decoding the apocryphal Infancy gospel of Thomas 
SN  - 9780227903018
AV  - BS2860.T42 .A23 2010eb
U1  - 229/.8 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, England
PB  - James Clarke & Co
KW  - Gospel of Thomas (Infancy Gospel)
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - Apocryphal infancy Gospels
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Biblical Studies
KW  - Bible Study Guides
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright information; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. The History of Research; 2. Oral/Written Tradition; 3. Narrative and Literary Features; 4. Daily Life and Social Relations; 5. Cultural Concepts and Values; 6. Jesus as a Child; 7. Jesus from Boy to Man; 8. Intertextuality-Reflections of the Bible; 9. Strange Sayings; 10. Main Theological Issues; 11. A Popular Tale from Early Rural Christianity; 12. Christianity's First Children's Story; 13. Conclusions; Appendix 1 Greek Text; Appendix 2 English Translation; Appendix 3 The Structure of Ga/Gb/Gd; Appendix 4 Designations of Individual EpisodesAppendix 5 Survey of Greek Variants and the Versions*; Appendix 6 Survey of IGT Evidence by Century; Appendix 7 Survey of Early Christian Infancy Stories; Bibliography; Back Cover
N2  - The mid-second-century apocryphal infancy gospel, the Gospel of Thomas, which deals with the childhood of Jesus from age five to age twelve, has attained only limited interest from scholars. Much research into the story has also been seriously misguided - especially study of the story's origin, character, and setting. This book gives a fresh interpretation of the infancy gospel, not least by applying a variety of new approaches, including orality studies, narrative studies, gender studies, and social-scientific approaches. The book comes to a number of radical new conclusions: The Gospel of Th
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