WOMEN IN THE SYRIAC TRADITION Susan Ashbrook Harvey,
WOMEN IN THE SYRIAC TRADITION Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Brown University, USA. A Syriac apocryphal work, the Acts of Thomas holds that Christianity was brought to India by the apostle Judas Thomas in the middle of the first century AD. At the beginning of this document, two striking encounters with women take place. The first occurs soon after Thomas arrives in India as a slave, bought to serve King Gundaphorus as a carpenter. The only person to recognize that Thomas is not what he seems is a young Hebrew flute girl. A servant, the girl is portrayed as...
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