"Finding" the Gospel of Thomas in Edessa
It has long been supposed that the Gospel of Thomas originated in Edessa. Recent scholarship, however, has troubled this consensus, occasioning a reflection on the emergence and notable durability of the idea. In this article, I analyze the development of the Edessene hypothesis and its role in cont...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
[2017]
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 501-530 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Edessa
/ Monasticism
/ Asceticism
/ Gospel of Thomas
/ Text history
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| IxTheo Classification: | HD Early Judaism KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KBL Near East and North Africa KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
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| Summary: | It has long been supposed that the Gospel of Thomas originated in Edessa. Recent scholarship, however, has troubled this consensus, occasioning a reflection on the emergence and notable durability of the idea. In this article, I analyze the development of the Edessene hypothesis and its role in contemporary conversations on Gos. Thom. I argue that the hypothesis is most comprehensible in the context of certain sets of assumptions inherited from two scholarly currents converging in the mid-twentieth century: Euro-American Orientalism and the mystocentrism of the Eranos circle. |
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| ISSN: | 1086-3184 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of early Christian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/earl.2017.0051 |