Land of Two Rivers The Gnostic Apostle Thomas / chapter 8 / Herbert Christian Merillat
Between the upper Tigris and Euphrates, whose waters nourished one of the first civilizations on our planet, we find Sanli Urfa, Turkey. Here is the homeland of Thomas lore, the native ground of the principal Thomas traditions and writings. Arising in the Caucasus mountains, then making its way southwestward across the Anatolian plateau, the Euphrates describes a huge bend, about l00 miles across, as it turns south. Then it crosses from present-day Turkey into Syria, and then southeastward to meander the length of Iraq to the Persian Gulf. Within that bend lay, in ancient times, the...
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