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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 May 2018
      19 April 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108296953
      9781108419123
      9781108409551
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108296953
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 312 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.425kg, 316 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Religion, Church History
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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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