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Doubting Thomas
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ISBN: 0674019148 9780674025615 9780674019140 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,


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The journey of Christianity to India in late antiquity
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ISBN: 9781108419123 1108419127 9781108296953 9781108409551 1108317790 1108296955 1108321518 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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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