{"product_id":"syriac-tradition-of-the-infancy-gospel-of-thomas-tony-burke","title":"The Syriac Tradition of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas | Tony Burke","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Syriac Tradition of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: A Critical Edition and English Translation | Tony Burke\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Infancy Gospel of Thomas\u003c\/em\u003e, like many apocryphal gospels, has been much transformed over the course of its transmission. Though composed in Greek in the second century, the gospel is extant in a number of other languages and a myriad of forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most well-known form is a 19-chapter version in Greek based on late manuscripts (none earlier than the fourteenth century); but it is now widely-believed among scholars of the text that a shorter 16-chapter version preserved in Syriac, Latin, Ethiopic, and Georgian manuscripts is closer to the gospel's original form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf these manuscripts, those in Syriac are by far the most important: two of them are very early (fifth\/sixth centuries) and thus their text has undergone fewer changes than the texts of the other witnesses. Any study of the \u003cem\u003eInfancy Gospel of Thomas \u003c\/em\u003eneeds to take account of the Syriac tradition, now possible with this new critical edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWider studies of Syriac literature and history also benefit from this edition as the gospel was very popular in the Syrian milieu where it generated a number of further translations (an \u003cem\u003eArabic Infancy Gospel of Thomas\u003c\/em\u003e, and sections incorporated into the \u003cem\u003eArabic Infancy Gospel \u003c\/em\u003eand the \u003cem\u003eArmenian Infancy Gospel\u003c\/em\u003e) and became incorporated into two popular Life of Mary collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present volume includes a history of scholarship on the \u003cem\u003eSyriac Infancy Gospel of Thomas\u003c\/em\u003e, a description of the extant manuscripts (now numbering over twenty-five and divided into three recensions), and editions and translations of each recension of the text.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51498936664379,"sku":"1463240910","price":200.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/9781463240912.jpg?v=1785450857","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/syriac-tradition-of-the-infancy-gospel-of-thomas-tony-burke","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}