Gnostic Revisions of Genesis Stories and Early Jesus Traditions /

Gnostic Revisions of Genesis Stories and Early Jesus Traditions /

This book argues that the intellectuals behind early Gnostic revisions of Genesis stories were second-century Christians with an ideological background in Greek-Hellenistic philosophy, who adopted and reinterpreted biblical narrative materials with a view to exposing the inferiority of the creator-G...

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Main Author: Luttikhuizen, Gerard P. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2006.

Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies ; 58.

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Gnostic literature > Relation to the Old Testament.

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Call Number: BT1392.A752

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Gnostic Interpreters
  • Polemical Context and Function (ApJohn)
  • Philosophical Thought Pattern (ApJohn)
  • Narrative Scheme (ApJohn)
  • The Creation of Adam and Eve (ApJohn)
  • Paradise (ApJohn, TestTruth)
  • Eve's Children and the Salvation of Humanity (ApJohn, HypArch)
  • Noah and the Flood (ApJohn, HypArch, ApocAdam)
  • The Ineffable God (ApJohn, TrimProt)
  • The Teaching of Jesus
  • The Passion of Jesus: The Suffering Jesus and the Impassible Christ (ApocPet)
  • The Passion of Jesus: The Wooden Cross and the Cosmic Cross of Light (ActsJohn)
  • Johannine Vocabulary and Gnostic thought (LetPetPhil, TrimProt)
  • Readers of Gnostic Texts
  • The Baptists of Mani's Youth and the Elchasaites
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Ancient Texts
  • Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies.