The Gospel of Thomas: In the Light of Early Jewish Christian & Islamic Esoteric Trajectories (Matheson Monographs)

A new translation from Coptic and Greek texts and an in-depth study of The Gospel of Thomas integrating philological expertise with historical synthesis tracing and reconstructing the threads of ancient Jewish esoteric ideas stretching across the millennia in Kabbalah Jewish-Christian (Ebionite) texts as well as in Islamic Sufi and Shiite gnostic traditions. Zinners work injects fresh and invigorating ideas into Thomas scholarship and delivers an important contribution to the field of Jewish Studies.