J. R. C. Cousland

Holy Terror: Jesus in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas

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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas (or Paidika) is one of the most unusual gospels in the Christian tradition. Instead of revealing the compassionate Jesus so familiar to us from the biblical Gospels, it confronts its readers with a very different Jesus - a child who sometimes acts like a holy terror, killing and harming others for trifling faults. So why is Jesus portrayed as acting in such an 'unchristian' fashion? To address this question, Cousland focuses on three interconnected representations of Jesus in the Paidika: Jesus as holy terror, as child, and as miracle-working saviour. Cousland endeavours to show that, despite the differing charact… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-567-66818-9
EAN: 9780567668189
Produktnummer: 24966248
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 287 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

J.R.C. Cousland is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada.