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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Jennifer A.GlancySlavery in <i>Acts of Thomas</i>http://syriaca.org/cbss/Z4MQXXS9https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/Z4MQXXS9https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/Z4MQXXS9Journal of Early Christian History2:220123-21The central figure of <i>Acts of Thomas</i> is the doubly enslaved apostle Thomas, metaphorically enslaved to his kyrios Christ, literally sold into slavery in a foreign land. As a result, the work returns frequently and explicitly to the theme of slavery, sustaining attention to the uneasy relationship between theological trope of slavery and lived realities and power relations of slavery. Caught between metaphor and critique, the narrative of <i>Acts of Thomas</i> assumes the inevitability of slavery, a tension epitomizing the representation of slavery in Christian writings of the era - slavery figured as metaphor to characterize relationship between believer and kyrios, slavery recognized as incongruent with the gospel of freedom, but nonetheless conceded as natural structure of the world.
Glancy, Jennifer A. “Slavery in Acts of Thomas.” Journal of Early Christian History 2:2 (2012): 3–21.
Jennifer A. Glancy, Slavery in Acts of Thomas,” Journal of Early Christian History 2:2 (2012): 3–21.Acts of ThomasI-III CEIII CENT apocryphaThomasslavery