The Gospel of Thomas and the Thomasine Tradition

The Gospel of Thomas and the Thomasine TraditionCollectanea Christiana OrientaliaSyriaca.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/D6XMTNQ4/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.PetruMoldovanThe Gospel of Thomas and the Thomasine Traditionhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/D6XMTNQ4https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/D6XMTNQ4https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/D6XMTNQ4Collectanea Christiana Orientalia20202373-96The debates about various early ‘Christian’ communities are still in an incomplete and tumultuous never-ending process. This paper illustrates that the manufactured theories about ‘community’ or ‘tradition’ do not describe the particular social conditions of textualities such as the Gospel of Thomas. It is very common to the mainstream scholarship of the early Christianities to put together heterogeneous ideas and to understand them as forming a special type of singularity. This is, in our case, the idea of ‘apostle Thomas.’ The scholarly representatives have tried to use complex sets of borrowed methodologies in order to make the historical lines of flight of early Christianity ideas more appealing and to conceal the process of domestication of textualities as the Gospel of Thomas. They have intentionally constructed religious communities, several types of Christians, differences, and similarities; all these aspects have the purpose to join in one wide and domesticated ‘Thomasine’ tradition. This paper aims to follow the lines of flight as they are programmed by the Thomas-scholars in order to deconstruct such approaches and to provide an alternative reading perspective detached by any kind of theological agendum. Moldovan, Petru. “The Gospel of Thomas and the Thomasine Tradition.” Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 20 (2023): 73–96. Petru Moldovan, The Gospel of Thomas and the Thomasine Tradition,” Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 20 (2023): 73–96.Acts of ThomasGospel of ThomasI-III CENT apocryphaThomasapostles