Revisiting Preliminary Issues in the Acts of Thomas
The Acts of Thomas has generally been assigned to the early third century, and is assumed to have been written in the region of Edessa by an anonymous author. A critical reading of the work with an eye to the redactional activity present in it may carry the discussion in new directions. Based on a r...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
2006
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Apocrypha
Year: 2006, Volume: 17, Pages: 95-112 |
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| Summary: | The Acts of Thomas has generally been assigned to the early third century, and is assumed to have been written in the region of Edessa by an anonymous author. A critical reading of the work with an eye to the redactional activity present in it may carry the discussion in new directions. Based on a recognition of the composite nature of the text, I suggest that the anonymous author of the second half (who is also redactor of the discrete tales in the first half) hailed from Nisibis rather than Edessa. And while the early tales may have been known to Origen and therefore stem from the early third century, the work as a whole was most likely completed later in the same century, although evidence for precise dating of the entire work is difficult to find. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Apocrypha
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.APOCRA.2.302049 |