A companion to second-century Christian "heretics" /

The book illuminates "the other side" of early Christianity by examining thinkers and movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers as legitimate forms of Christianity, but which are now largely forgotten, or are known only from the characteristics attributed to the...

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Other Authors: Luomanen, Petri, 1961-, Marjanen, Antti.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2008.

Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2008, ISBN: 9789004222717.

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Call Number: BT1319 .C65 2008

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Basilides the Gnostic /
  • Birger A. Pearson
  • Sethianism /
  • Michael A. Williams
  • The School of Valentinus /
  • Ismo Dunderberg
  • Marcion /
  • Heikki Räisänen
  • Tatian the Assyrian /
  • William L. Petersen
  • Bardaisan of Edessa /
  • Nicola Denzey
  • Montanism: Egalitarian Ecstatic "New Prophecy" /
  • Antti Marjanen
  • Cerinthus /
  • Matti Myllykoski
  • Ebionites /
  • Sakari Häkkinen
  • Nazarenes /
  • Petri Luomanen
  • Jewish Christianity of the Pseudo-Clementines /
  • F. Stanley Jones
  • Elchasaites and Their Book /
  • Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index of Modern Authors
  • General Index.