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The Gospel of Thomas and Christian origins : essays on the Fifth Gospel / by Stephen J. Patterson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 84.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 311 pages)Content type:
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  • 9789004256217
  • 9004256210
  • 129982983X
  • 9781299829831
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gospel of Thomas and Christian originsDDC classification:
  • 229/.8 23
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  • BS2860.T52 P384 2013eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)637427

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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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.