The Infancy Gospel of Thomas
"The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is one of the weirdest and most problematic writings of early Christianity, but despite recent advances in its understanding it still does not receive the attention it deserves. This volume begins with two chapters on introductory issues such as the title, the audi...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Leuven Paris Bristol, CT
Peeters
2025
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Studies on early Christian Apocrypha (23)
Year: 2025 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Series/Journal: | Studies on early Christian Apocrypha
23 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gospel of Thomas
/ Text history
/ Context
/ Theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Conference program 2023 (Prague)
B Collection of essays |
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Table of Contents Blurb |
| Summary: | "The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is one of the weirdest and most problematic writings of early Christianity, but despite recent advances in its understanding it still does not receive the attention it deserves. This volume begins with two chapters on introductory issues such as the title, the audience, the transmission, the time and place of the original text, and its Sitz im Leben. The next three chapters focus first on a literary analysis arguing for a partially coherent plot showing the development of Jesus in his childhood, and then on aspects of Jesus’ upbringing and the ways in which different versions reflect readers’ discomfort with Jesus letting other children die. Subsequent chapters consider the material aspects of the textual transmission, including an exciting new papyrus. The volume concludes with three versions of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas that have been very little studied – Georgian, Ukrainian and Old Czech – and are virtually unknown in the Anglophone world. All of these are here translated into English for the first time." |
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| Item Description: | "In this twenty-third volume of "Studies in Early Christian Apocrypha", we present the results of a conference held in Prague, Czech Republic, on 21-22 June 2023, ...". - Preface Seite viii |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 212 Seiten, Diagramme, 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-90-429-5402-1 90-429-5402-7 |
