Gnostic revisions of Genesis stories and early Jesus traditions / / Gerard P. Luttikhuizen.
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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| Superior document: | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies ; Volume 58 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2006] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ;
Volume 58. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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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.