Thomas carries around his flayed skin in this illumination from London, British Library, Or. 685 (18th cent.), a collection of apocryphal acts in Ethiopic.
When it comes to narratives about the apostle Thomas, however, the well-known Acts of Thomas is far from the only game in town, so to speak. In our contribution to MNTA 2, Janet Spittler and I had the opportunity to translate for the first time into English the Greek text of another apocryphal narrative about Thomas: the Acts of Thomas and His Wonderworking Skin.
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