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The Gospel of Thomas and Plato

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Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. In The Gospel of Thomas and Plato, Ivan Miroshnikov contributes to the study of the earliest Christian engagements ...
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  • 28 June 2018
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Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. In The Gospel of Thomas and Plato, Ivan Miroshnikov contributes to the study of the earliest Christian engagements with philosophy by offering the first systematic discussion of the impact of Platonism on the Gospel of Thomas, one of the most intriguing and cryptic works among the Nag Hammadi writings. Miroshnikov demonstrates that a Platonist lens is indispensable to the understanding of a number of the Thomasine sayings that have, for decades, remained elusive as exegetical cruces. The Gospel of Thomas is thus an important witness to the early stages of the process that eventually led to the Platonist formulation of certain Christian dogmata.
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Price: $175.00
Pages: 324
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date: 28 June 2018
ISBN: 9789004367289
Format: Hardcover
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"This careful and illuminating study... will be viewed as a significant contribution to Thomasine studies." - Paul Foster, in: Expository Times, 2019

'...einen wichtigen Beitrag zu weiteren Erforschung der platonischen Hintergründe des Thomasevangeliums im Speziellen und des frühen Christentums im Generellen [...] der in jeden weiteren Diskussionen zu diesem Themenfeld zu berücksichtigen sein wird.' Enno Edzard Popkes, Kiel, Theologische Literaturzeitung 145 (2020) 1/2

Ivan Miroshnikov, Ph.D. (2016), is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki and Research Fellow at the Center of Egyptological Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He co-edited Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity (Brill, 2017) and is currently working to publish various unedited manuscripts in Coptic.