The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Origins ：Essays on the Fifth Gospel ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Essays on the Fifth Gospel

Publication series ：1

Author： Patterson   Stephen J.  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9789004256217

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004250840

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004250840

Subject： B92 宗教理论与概况

Keyword： 宗教

Language： ENG

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Ten seminal essays on the Gospel of Thomas from a scholar whose work has been at the center of the Thomas debate for more than two decades.

Chapter

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Original Publications

List of Abbreviations

Introduction. A Polarizing Artifact

Chapter One. The View from across the Euphrates

Chapter Two. Jesus Meets Plato: The Theology of the Gospel of Thomas and Middle Platonism

Chapter Three. Platonism and the Apocryphal Origins of Immortality in the Christian Imagination or Why do Christians Have Souls that Go to Heaven?

Chapter Four. The Gospel of (Judas) Thomas and the Synoptic Problem

Chapter Five. The Gospel of Thomas and Historical Jesus Research

Chapter Six. Wisdom in Q and Thomas

Chapter Seven. Asceticism in the Gospel of Thomas and Q: The Peculiar Practice of the Early Jesus Tradition

Chapter Eight. The Parable of the Catch of Fish: A Brief History

Chapter Nine. Apocalypticism or Prophecy and the Problem of Polyvalence: Lessons from the Gospel of Thomas

Chapter Ten. Paul and the Jesus Tradition: It is Time for Another Look

Chapter Eleven. The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Beginnings

Works Cited

Index of Gospel of Thomas

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Modern Authors

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