The Syriac Acts of Thomas: A Computerized Grammatical Concordance of Acts 1 and 2

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.John DavidZemlerThe Syriac Acts of Thomas: A Computerized Grammatical Concordance of Acts 1 and 2http://syriaca.org/cbss/AAVALUQWhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/AAVALUQWhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/AAVALUQW2003At present there is no concordance to the Syriac Acts of Thomas. The lack of a concordance hobbles research into this early third-century Christian apocryphal acts. A Greek concordance already exists. In order to study the Acts of Thomas with any confidence a concordance is necessary for both the Greek and the Syriac. Research interests in the Acts revolve around a number of areas, including, but not limited to the following: (1) Translation Direction: The question concerning the Acts' original language remains, was it Greek or Syriac? (2) Sacraments: The Acts of Thomas offer insights from early Christianity concerning Baptism and Eucharist. (3) Biblical texts and Translations: The text retains readings which can be classified as belonging to the Old Syriac Gospels and possibly to the Diatesseron. (4) The Thomas Tradition: The Acts are part of the Thomas Tradition. (5) Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles: The Acts are one of the five great apocryphal acts of the apostles. (6) Gender Studies: Women play a crucial part in most of the individual stories which form the Acts. (7) Jewish-Christian Relations: There appear to be connections between some portions of the Acts and portions of the Talmud. None of these areas of research can be fully undertaken without a concordance to the Syriac Acts of Thomas. To this end, I have automated the Syriac text of the Acts of Thomas as found in the 1871 William Wright edition of the British Museum manuscript additional 14,645. I have developed a concordance which emphasizes automation and grammatical classification of the text. My aim is two-fold, to offer a grammatical concordance to Acts 1 and 2, and to exploit modern word processing software to be able to conduct this research without having to take courses in computer programming. Acts 1 and 2 circulated separately from the entire thirteen act version, so a concordance to those two acts will be immediately useful for research on the Acts of Thomas. Zemler, John David. “The Syriac Acts of Thomas: A Computerized Grammatical Concordance of Acts 1 and 2.” Ph.D. dissertation, Marquette University, 2003. John David Zemler, The Syriac Acts of Thomas: A Computerized Grammatical Concordance of Acts 1 and 2 (Ph.D. dissertation, Marquette University, 2003).Acts of ThomasI-III CEJewish backgroundJewish-Christian relationsNT apocryphaRabbinic JudaismSyriac languageconcordance