Reading the Gospel of Thomas from Here: A Trans-Centred Hermeneutic

This article adopts a trans-centered approach to reading the Gospel of Thomas, in particular key statements found in Gos. Thom. 22 and 114. Treatments of gender in the gospel are discussed from the author’s position as a queer woman of transgender experience, informed by postcolonial, feminist, and...

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Autor principal:	Melissa Harl Sellew
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Publicado:	University of Sheffield 2020
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:df13c08f7dd345c692c79caa55a5fe1b2021-11-18T14:47:02ZReading the Gospel of Thomas from Here: A Trans-Centred Hermeneutic2633-069510.17613/4etz-b919https://doaj.org/article/df13c08f7dd345c692c79caa55a5fe1b2020-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://hcommons.org/deposits/view/hc:29256/CONTENT/4.-harl-sellew-final-61-96.pdf/https://doaj.org/toc/2633-0695This article adopts a trans-centered approach to reading the Gospel of Thomas, in particular key statements found in Gos. Thom. 22 and 114. Treatments of gender in the gospel are discussed from the author’s position as a queer woman of transgender experience, informed by postcolonial, feminist, and gender-critical theory and practice. Literary and historical comparisons with Philo of Alexandria and the apostle Paul are explored to uncover Thomas’s worldview, which is seen to be darkly critical of the material world, while being hopeful for spiritual transformation. Though the Gospel of Thomas participates in the prevalent masculinist ideology of most literature of the day, many of its sayings may garner a new or nuanced meaning when read through a transgender lens, including especially the demand for replacement of the outer person with the inner person (Gos. Thom. 22), and potential salvation through erasure of conventional gender difference in the making of an ungendered Living Spirit resembling Jesus (Gos. Thom. 114).Melissa Harl SellewUniversity of Sheffieldarticlegospel of thomasgendertransgenderqueering jesusreader responseThe BibleBS1-2970ENJournal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, Vol 1, Iss 2, Pp 61-96 (2020)
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description	This article adopts a trans-centered approach to reading the Gospel of Thomas, in particular key statements found in Gos. Thom. 22 and 114. Treatments of gender in the gospel are discussed from the author’s position as a queer woman of transgender experience, informed by postcolonial, feminist, and gender-critical theory and practice. Literary and historical comparisons with Philo of Alexandria and the apostle Paul are explored to uncover Thomas’s worldview, which is seen to be darkly critical of the material world, while being hopeful for spiritual transformation. Though the Gospel of Thomas participates in the prevalent masculinist ideology of most literature of the day, many of its sayings may garner a new or nuanced meaning when read through a transgender lens, including especially the demand for replacement of the outer person with the inner person (Gos. Thom. 22), and potential salvation through erasure of conventional gender difference in the making of an ungendered Living Spirit resembling Jesus (Gos. Thom. 114).
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Reading the Gospel of Thomas from Here: A Trans-Centred Hermeneutic

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