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The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio, c. 1602. A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience – a reference to the Gospel of John's depiction of the Apostle Thomas, who, in John's account, refused to believe the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles until he could see and feel Jesus's crucifixion wounds.
Thomas the Apostle (Greek: Θωμᾶς, romanized: Thōmâs; Classical Syriac: ܬܐܘܡܐ, romanized: Tʾōmā, meaning 'the Twin'), [a] also known as Didymus (Ancient Greek: Δίδυμος, romanized: Dídymos 'twin') was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament.
A Doubter's Guide to the Bible: Inside History's bestseller for believers and skeptics (Zondervan, 2015) A Doubter's Guide to the Ten Commandments: How, for better or worse, our ideas about the good life come from Moses and Jesus (Zondervan, 2016) Humilitas: A Lost Key to Life, Love, and Leadership (Zondervan, 2018)
Peculiar Treasures: a Biblical who's who, 1979 (ISBN 9780060611415) A Room Called Remember, 1984 (ISBN 9780060611859) Whistling in the Dark: a doubter's dictionary, 1988 (ISBN 9780060611408) The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction, 1992 (ISBN 9780060611842)
Title page of the 1880 New York edition The seal from the Sixth Book of Moses, "The Sixth Mystery: The Seal of the Power-Angels seu Potestatum ex Thoro VI.Bi- bliis arcaiiorum, over the Angels and Spirits of all the Elements", from the 1880 New York edition Figure from Vol.II, Formulas of the Magical Kabala of the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, "The Spirit Appears in a Pillar of Fire By Night".
The paintings features heavy chiaroscuro.Thomas's face shows surprise as Jesus holds his hand and guides it into the wound. [5] The absence of a halo emphasizes the corporeality of the risen Christ.
Certain Biblical scholars have used this as a meter for assessing whether the New Testament's accounts of Jesus's actions and words are historically probable. [ 1 ] The criterion of embarrassment is one of the criteria of authenticity used by academics, the others being the criterion of dissimilarity , the criterion of language and environment ...
The criterion of dissimilarity [1] (often used as a shorthand for criterion of double dissimilarity; [2] it is also called criterion of discontinuity, [1] [3] originality [1] or dual irreducibility [1]) is used in Biblical criticism to determine if a statement attributed to Jesus may be authentic.