Christ Child - Stephen Davis

Christ Child
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Autor: Stephen Davis

 Wydawnictwo: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300149456
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Oprawa: twarda
Stron: 432
Data wydania: 2014-06-01
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Little is known about the early childhood of Jesus Christ. But in the decades after his death, stories began circulating about his origins. One collection of such tales was the so-called Infancy Gospel of Thomas, known in antiquity as the Paidika, or "Childhood Deeds" of Jesus. In it, Jesus not only performs miracles while at play (such as turning clay birds into live sparrows) but also gets enmeshed in a series of interpersonal conflicts and curses to death children and teachers who rub him the wrong way. How would early readers have made sense of this young Jesus? In this highly innovative book, Stephen Davis draws on current theories about how human communities construe the past to answer this question. He then shows how the figure of a young Jesus was later picked up and exploited in the context of medieval Jewish-Christian and Christian-Muslim encounters. Challenging many scholarly assumptions, Davis adds a crucial dimension to the story of how Christian history was created. "The most thoughtful and erudite study to date of the so-called "Infancy Gospel of Thomas", this book demonstrates the relevance of the "Paidika "to the ongoing efforts to understand both the life and "afterlife" of early Christian traditions. Davis surrounds his main source with copious amounts of scholarship, insightful readings of primary texts, and illustrative examples of material artifacts."--Chris Frilingos, Michigan State University--Chris Frilingos.

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Stephen Davis