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ISBN-13: 9780800628468
Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
Imprint: AUGSBURG BOOKS
By Gregory J. Riley
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Local release date: 30/04/1995
Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 140.00mm) 232 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Biblical commentaries [HRCG1]Bible readings, selections & meditations [HRCG9]

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Google Preview: This study centers on a protracted debate within early Christianity concerning a foundational aspect of the Gospel of Thomas and its related literature: the concept of the body and resurrection. It traces the background of this idea in the Semitic and Greco-Roman world, and its expression in the Thomas literature as a whole: the Gospel of Thomas, Book of Thomas, and Acts of Thomas. But the inspiration for the study, and its main focus, is the controversy between the two closely related Christian communities of Thomas and John, between the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of John, on the issue of resurrection, expressed in John most clearly in the story of Doubting Thomas.; Gregory J. Riley is Associate Professor of New Testament at the Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, Calif.; Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One Afterlife and Resurrection in the Ancient Mediterranean World The Background of the Thomas Tradition Chapter Two Thomas and the Appearance Stories in John Chapter Three The Pericope of Doubting Thomas John 20:24-29 Chapter Four The Body and Resurrection in the Thomas Tradition The Gospel of Thomas Chapter Five The Body and Resurrection in the Thomas Tradition The Book of Thomas and the Acts of Thomas Summary and Conclusions Bibliography Index of Biblical References Index of Modern Authors; Google Preview content