Before Valentinus: The Gnostics of Irenaeus /
This book offers the first detailed commentary on the Gnostic treatises reported by Irenaeus in Adversus Haereses 1.29-30. It is argued that these texts represent the earliest tangible layer of the Gnostic literary tradition and served as sources for the Apocryphon of John and other later works. The...
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التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
منشور في:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2023.
سلاسل:
Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies ;
106.
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رقم الطلب: BS2387
جدول المحتويات:
- Preface
- 1 The "Gnostics" of the Heresiologists
- The Pre-history of Valentinianism According to Irenaeus
- The Valentinians' "Gnostic" Predecessors
- Irenaeus' "Gnostics" and the Later Heresiological Tradition
- 2 The Gnostic Treatise of Iren. Haer. 1.30
- The Protology
- The Separation of Sophia Prounikos
- Sophia's Body
- Sophia's Son and His Offspring
- The Boast, the Rebuke, and the Creation of the Human
- The Creation of the Woman and the Eating from the Tree
- The Expulsion from the Garden
- Adam, Eve, and Their Family after Their Expulsion
- The Flood, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and the Prophets
- The Birth of Jesus and the Sending of Christ
- The Failure of the Disciples to Understand Who Jesus Was
- The Redemption of the Sprinkling of Light
- 3 The Gnostic Treatise of Haer. 1.29
- The Father and Barbelo
- The Birth of Christ, the Light
- The Generation of Autogenes and His Four Attendant Luminaries
- The Generation of Adamas
- Sophia Gives Birth to the Archon
- The Archon Creates the Heavens and Makes an Arrogant Boast
- 4 Trajectories in the Early History of Gnostic Ideas
- Relative Chronologies
- Gnostics and Sethians
- Origins
- 5 Valentinus, Valentinianism and the Gnostics
- Sophia and Christ
- The Primordial Anthropos
- Valentinian Innovations
- Bibliography
- Index.