The Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity
Networks and the Movement of Culture
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The Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity
Networks and the Movement of Culture
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How did Christianity make its remarkable voyage from the Roman Mediterranean to the Indian subcontinent? By examining the social networks that connected the ancient and late antique Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, central Asia, and Iran, this book contemplates the social relations that made such movement possible. It also analyzes how the narrative tradition regarding the apostle Judas Thomas, which originated in Upper Mesopotamia and accredited him with evangelizing India, traveled among the social networks of an interconnected late antique world. In this way, the book probes how the Thomas narrative shaped Mediterranean Christian beliefs regarding co-religionists in central Asia and India, impacted local Christian cultures, took shape in a variety of languages, and experienced transformation as it traveled from the Mediterranean to India, and back again.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Acts of Thomas
- Part II Christianity, Networks, and the Red Sea
- Part III Christianity, Networks, and the Middle East
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Beginning of Syriac Acts of Thomas (Wrightâs Text)
- Appendix 2: Beginning of Greek Acts of Thomas (Bonnetâs text)
- Bibliography
- Index