The Gospel of Thomas: In the Light of Early Jewish, Christian and Islamic Esoteric Trajectories : with a Contextualized Commentary and a New Translation of the Thomas GospelThe Matheson Trust, 2011 - 333 A new translation from Coptic and Greek texts, and an in-depth study of The Gospel of Thomas, integrating philological expertise with historical synthesis, tracing and reconstructing the threads of ancient Jewish esoteric ideas stretching across the millennia in Kabbalah, Jewish-Christian (Ebionite) texts, as well as in Islamic Sufi and Shi'ite gnostic traditions. Zinner's work injects fresh and invigorating ideas into Thomas scholarship and delivers an important contribution to the field of Jewish Studies. |
Spis treści
The Matrix of Orality and Textuality | 3 |
Overcoming the Historicist Paradigm | 19 |
Ancient Jewish Esoteric Traditions | 25 |
The Reality and Nature of the Esoteric Teachings | 44 |
Recovering the Esoteric James | 65 |
Jewish Esoteric Traditions in 2ndCentury | 88 |
From Jewish Christianity to Islam | 97 |
A RECONSTRUCTION OF EARLY JEWISH CHRISTIANITY | 121 |
Part I The Gospel | 198 |
Part II Transfiguration | 213 |
Part III The Angelic | 222 |
Part IV Ebionite | 230 |
JewishChristian Features of the Gospel of Thomas | 245 |
A Contextualized | 261 |
A New Translation | 291 |
Bibliography | 309 |
Reconstructing the Jerusalem Churchs Ebionite | 131 |
and John | 153 |
The Esoteric Heritages | 184 |
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