Kimberley A. Fowler
"Reading Gospel of Thomas 100 in the Fourth Century: From Roman Imperialism to Pachomian Concern over Wealth”
Fowler, Kimberley A.
Authors
Abstract
Recent scholarship has made strides in evidencing a Pachomian monastic relationship to the Nag Hammadi Codices, yet this remains to be sufficiently investigated through analysis of Nag Hammadi material bearing Pachomian traits, or best explained within a Pachomian ideological environment. In this article I argue that Gospel of Thomas 100’s redaction of the “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s” pericope (Mk 12:13-17 par.) can be better understood in light of conflict between Pachomian material wealth and ascetic aspirations. The redaction demonstrates that conflict over Roman tax payment, crucial in the first-century context of the Synoptic Gospels, is in this fourth-century context essentially irrelevant.
Citation
Fowler, K. A. (2018). "Reading Gospel of Thomas 100 in the Fourth Century: From Roman Imperialism to Pachomian Concern over Wealth”. Vigiliae Christianae: A Review of Early Christian Life and Language, 72(4), 421-446. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-12341356
| Journal Article Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Online Publication Date | Sep 14, 2018 |
| Publication Date | 2018-09 |
| Deposit Date | Nov 28, 2018 |
| Journal | Vigiliae Christianae |
| Print ISSN | 0042-6032 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1570-0720 |
| Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers |
| Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 421-446 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-12341356 |
| Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1313173 |