Husbands Scorned; Fathers Ignored

The Acts of Thomas was originally, a third-century Syrian remembrance of the Apostle Thomas' ministry and eventual martyrdom at the hands of the King of India. It has since been translated and reworked (or whitewashed, depending upon whom you are asking) many times to speak to many iterations of Christianity. In Husbands Scorned; Fathers Ignored, Imler seeks to recover the original community and to map it's social world, which straddled the powerful Roman and Persian Empires. He sees a a tolerated community, that is, until they meddled in the bedsheets of the powerful...