“Finding” the <i>Gospel of Thomas</i> in EdessaJournal of Early Christian StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/2V6MNM2G/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.J. GregoryGiven“Finding” the <i>Gospel of Thomas</i> in Edessahttp://syriaca.org/cbss/2V6MNM2Ghttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/2V6MNM2Ghttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/2V6MNM2GJournal of Early Christian Studies25:42017501-530It 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.
Given, J. Gregory. “‘Finding’ the Gospel of Thomas in Edessa.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 25:4 (2017): 501–30.
J. Gregory Given, ‘Finding’ the Gospel of Thomas in Edessa,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 25:4 (2017): 501–30.EdessaGospel of ThomasI-III CENT apocrypha