Studies in Gnosticism and Alexandrian Christianity /

Studies in Gnosticism and Alexandrian Christianity /

The discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library (1945) has given an enormous impetus not only to the study of ancient Gnosticism but also to that of early Christianity in general. Most of the studies contained in this volume deal with mythological conceptions and theological ideas found in various Nag Hamm...

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Main Author: Broek, Roelof van den (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1996.

Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies ; 39.

Subjects:

Gnosticism.
Alexandrian school, Christian.

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Call Number: BT1390

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Gnosticism and Hermetism in Antiquity: Two Roads to Salvation
  • Eugnostus and Aristides on the Ineffable God
  • Apuleius, Gnostics and Magicians on the Nature of God
  • Autogenes and Adamas:
  • The Creation of Adam's Psychic Body in the Apocryphon of John
  • Von der jüdischen Weisheit zum gnostischen Erlöser:
  • Jewish and Platonic Speculations in Early Alexandrian Theology: Eugnostus, Philo, Valentinus, Origen
  • The Shape of Edem according to Justin the Gnostic
  • Der Bericht des koptischen Kyrillos von Jerusalem über das Hebräerevangelium
  • The Cathars: Medieval Gnostics?
  • Juden und Christen in Alexandrien im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert
  • The Christian "School" of Alexandria in the Second and Third Centuries
  • The Authentikos Logos: A New Document of Christian Platonism
  • The Theology of the Teachings of Silvanus
  • The Teachings of Silvanus and the Greek Gnomic Tradition
  • Index of Sources
  • Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies.