David W Kim

The Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas

The Genesis of a Wisdom Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a detailed analysis of the Gospel of Thomas in its historic and literary context, providing a new understanding of the genesis of the Jesus tradition

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780367629243
• ISBN-10: 0367629240
• Artikelnr.: 69890107

Autorenporträt

David W. Kim is a Visiting Fellow at the School of History, Australian National University, Canberra and an Associate Professor of the History of Christianity, Kookmin University, Seoul. His publication includes Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories Across Cultures: Transmission of Oral Tradition, Myth, and Religiosity (2020), Colonial Transformation and Asian Religions in Modern History (2018), Religious Encounters in Transcultural Society: Collison, Alteration, and Transmission (2017), Religious Transformation in Modern Asia: A Transnational Movement (2015), and Intercultural Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 The Transmission of a Thomas Tradition
2 The Thomasine Community
3 Hermeneutical Debates over Mystical Logia: Sapiential versus Gnostic
4 The Parables and Kingdom Language in Thomas
5 The Female Disciples in Thomas
Conclusion