The Gospel of Thomas and Plato - A Study of the Impact of Platonism on the "Fifth Gospel"

In The Gospel of Thomas and Plato, Ivan Miroshnikov offers the first systematic discussion of the Platonist impact on the Gospel of Thomas, arguing that Platonism is indispensable to making sense of those sayings that have long remained exegetical cruces.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ivan Miroshnikov
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2018
• EAN: 9789004367289
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36728-9
• No. of pages: 334
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Stu
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity