Nathanael J. Andrade is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at State University of New York, Binghamton. His previous book was Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge, 2013).
Introduction; Part I. The Acts of Thomas: 1. The Acts of Thomas and its
impact; Part II. Christianity, Networks, and the Red Sea: 2. Early
Christianity and its many Indias: complexities of the sources; 3. The Roman
Egyptian network, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean; Part III.
Christianity, Networks, and the Middle East: 4. The movement of
Christianity into Sasanian Persia: perspectives and sources; 5. Social
connectivity between the Roman Levant, Persian Gulf, and Central Asia; 6.
The Late Antique impact of the Acts of Thomas and Christian communities in
India; Conclusion.
