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Book: Chasing Down Religion

Chapter: Why is it Better to be a Plant Than an Animal? Cognitive Poetics and Ascetic Ideals in the Book of Thomas the Contender (NHC II,7)

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.22748

Blurb:

Through questions and answers and eventually a monologue the resurrected Christ teaches Thomas his secret message. In this chapter Ingvild Gilhus discusses the positive and negative metaphors in the tractate.

Chapter Contributors

  • Ingvild Gilhus (isgilhus@equinox.pub.com - isgilhus) 'University of Bergen'