The infancy Gospel of Thomas: Allegory or myth – Gnostic or Ebionite?
Verbum et Ecclesia
| Field | Value | |
| Title | The infancy Gospel of Thomas: Allegory or myth – Gnostic or Ebionite? | |
| Creator | van Aarde, A G | |
| Description | The aim of this article is to show that scholars assess the Infancy Gospel of Thomas disparagingly as “illogical”, “un-Christian” and “banal”. A more positive judgment is that it is either “Gnostic” or “purified of Gnosticism”, or merely one of many ancient tales in the form of a historical allegory about Jesus as a child. The article argues that the author of the Greek version of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas in Codex Sinaiticus (Gr 453) describes the miracles of Jesus in a positive and negative light as if he were an adult. This phenomenon should be understood against the background that this second-century gospel is presented not so much in the genre of a Gnostic redeemer myth, but rather as a god-child myth that has neither an Orthodox nor a Gnostic orientation. Its context is rather early Ebionite Christianity. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2005-10-03 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/ve.v26i3.253 | |
| Source | Verbum et Ecclesia; Vol 26, No 3 (2005); 826-850 2074-7705 1609-9982 | |
| Language | eng | |
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