Talk:Thomas of Cana

Veracity of these claims
It should be noted that there is contention amongst the Kananaya as to whether a Syriac Orthodox Patriarch or an East Syriac Patriarch gave the order. Moreover, there is no historical information from India that justifies the story of Thomas of Cana---the earliest accounts of the Nasranis (from the 16th century) seem to indicate that Thomas of Cana was the progenitor of both the Syriac Christians (who were the dominant ethnic group, possessing the Archdeaconate) and the Knanaya Christians.

Finally, the "Jewish Christian" account, which is of very recent origin, should be regarded with a critical eye---the Nasranis were, by all accounts, East Syriac Christians from their earliest (documented) days. There is a wide chasm between East Syriac Christianity and Jewish Christianity and/or Judaism, as evidenced from the variety of polemics issued by the Syriac Christians doctors of the Middle East (who were not Jewish Christians by any means; ref. Jacob of Edessa) against the Jewish faith. Moreover, the Jewish communities of the East seemed to have no love for the Christians, given the massacres of Syriac Christians by Jewish tribal leaders in, for example, Yemen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.16.231.150 (talk) 14:43, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Recent edits
As at the Knanaya article, I've reverted a number of undiscussed changes largely made by PalakkappillyAchayan. The edits excised a lot of well-cited material, and altered other material in ways that were directly contradicted in the sources. Most notably, Frykenberg, Baum & Winkler, and Swiderski do not say that the Knanaya trace their decent to Thomas of Cana and an "Indian concubine"; these sources specifically say they trace their decent to Thomas of Cana and his Syrian immigrants.--Cúchullain t/ c 17:48, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Name
"Thomas of Cana" is demonstrably the WP:COMMONNAME here. It returns 2130 hits on Google Books, compared to only 356 for "Knai Thoma" and 51 for "Knay Thoma", none of which appear to actually use that spelling. If the article is to be moved it should go through a requested move discussion.--Cúchullain t/ c 12:55, 24 April 2019 (UTC)