The Gospel of Thomas and Christian origins : essays on the Fifth Gospel / by Stephen J. Patterson.
Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 84.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 311 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9789004256217 (electronic bk.)
- 9004256210 (electronic bk.)
- 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
- FICTION / General
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- BS2860.T52 P384 2013eb
A collection of previously published essays; dates of original publication range from 1991 to 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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 (on Matthew 13:47-50 and Gospel of Thom 8) -- 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.
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