A Path to the Beginning: The Major Redaction of the Gospel of Thomas and Syrian Christian Beginnings

A Path to the Beginning: The Major Redaction of the Gospel of Thomas and Syrian Christian BeginningsSyriaca.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/NP4AYV7F/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Justin MarcLasserA Path to the Beginning: The Major Redaction of the Gospel of Thomas and Syrian Christian Beginningshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/NP4AYV7Fhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/NP4AYV7Fhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/NP4AYV7F2011This dissertation recovers the major redaction of the Gospel of Thomas and connects it specifically to the Syrian Orient. The proposal that the Gospel of Thomas is related to Syria is not new; this dissertation differs in that it contends that it is the latest material within the Gospel of Thomas that is to he connected to Syria. Beyond the Syrian connection, this work proposes that the Genesis I-3 narrative serves as the context of the major redaction of the Gospel of Thomas. It is further argued that the major redaction of the Gospel of Thomas represents the first distinctively Syrian Christian text on record. Finally, in the Appendix to this dissertation, a new stratification theory is proposed for the Gospel of Thomas according to chreia elaborative schemes detailed in the Greco-Roman rhetorical manuals referred to as the 'Progymnasmata'. Lasser, Justin Marc. “A Path to the Beginning: The Major Redaction of the Gospel of Thomas and Syrian Christian Beginnings.” Ph.D. dissertation, Union Theological Seminary, New York, 2011. Justin Marc Lasser, A Path to the Beginning: The Major Redaction of the Gospel of Thomas and Syrian Christian Beginnings (Ph.D. dissertation, Union Theological Seminary, New York, 2011).Gen 1GenesisGospel of ThomasI-III CENT apocryphaasceticismexegesis