Seth in Jewish, Christian and Gnostic Literature

Seth in Jewish, Christian and Gnostic Literature
Author: Klijn
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2014-04-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004266577

Preliminary Material /A. F. J. Klijn -- Seth in Jewish Literature /A. F. J. Klijn -- Seth in Samaritan Literature /A. F. J. Klijn -- The name of Seth and facts from his life in Jewish and Christian Literature /A. F. J. Klijn -- Seth in Christian Literature /A. F. J. Klijn -- Seth in Gnostic Literature /A. F. J. Klijn -- Final Conclusions /A. F. J. Klijn -- Appendix I /A. F. J. Klijn -- Appendix II /A. F. J. Klijn -- Bibliography of modern authors /A. F. J. Klijn -- References /A. F. J. Klijn.

Seth

Seth
Author: Albertus Frederik Johannes Klijn
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1977-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004052451

Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity

Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity
Author: Birger A. Pearson
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 256
Release:
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781451404340

In this important contribution to the scholarly study of Egyptian Gnosticism, Pearson situates Gnosticism in its historical context and describes its manifold relationships to Judaism, early Christianity, and ancient Platonism. Birger Pearson gives special attention to the controversial issue of the impact of Gnosticism on early Egyptian Christianity up to the Muslim conquest of the seventh century. "Pearson is one of the most thorough and perceptive scholars in Gnostics studies today. The topics he deals with here are current and important, and no doubt will remain so for some time. This volume is a must for everyone in the field." ——Douglas M. Parrott, University of California, Riverside "Uniformly excellent contributions on the subject.... Students and teachers will benefit from Pearson's insightful and creative observations." ——Marvin Meyer, Chapman College

After the New Testament

After the New Testament
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1999
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The remarkable diversity of Christianity during the formative years of the first three centuries has become a plain, even natural, "fact" for most ancient historians. However, until now there has been no source book of primary texts that reveals the many varieties of Christian beliefs, practices, ethics, experiences, confrontations, and self-understandings. To help readers recognize and experience the rich diversity of the early Christian movement, After the New Testament provides a wide range of texts, both "orthodox" and "heterodox". It includes such works as the Apostolic Fathers, the writings of Nag Hammadi, early pseudepigrapha, martyrologies, anti-Jewish tractates, heresiologies, canon lists, church orders, Liturgical texts, and theological treatises. In addition, rather than including only fragments of texts, this collection provides substantial sections -- entire documents wherever possible -- organized under social and historical rubrics.

A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission

A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
Author: Gabriele Boccaccini
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2019-10-14
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0190863080

The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions, but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus not as an artificial collection of reconstructed texts--a body of hypothetical originals--but rather from the perspective of the preserved materials, examined in their religious, social, and political contexts. It also considers the other, non-Christian, channels of the survival of early Jewish materials, including Rabbinic, Gnostic, Manichaean, and Islamic. This unique project brings together scholars from many different fields in order to map the trajectories of early Jewish texts and traditions among diverse later cultures. It also provides a comprehensive and comparative introduction to this new field of study while bridging the gap between scholars of early Judaism and of medieval Christianity.

Gnostic Revisions of Genesis Stories And Early Jesus Traditions

Gnostic Revisions of Genesis Stories And Early Jesus Traditions
Author: Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004145109

The book examines the critical use of biblical and early Christian traditions in such Christian-Gnostic texts as the Apocryphon of John, The Nature of the Archons, The Apocalypse of Adam, The Testimony of Truth, The Apocalypse of Peter, The Letter of Peter to Philip, and the apocryphal Acts of John.

A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature

A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature
Author: David Lyle Jeffrey
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 1000
Release: 1992
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780802836342

Over 15 years in the making, an unprecedented one-volume reference work. Many of today's students and teachers of literature, lacking a familiarity with the Bible, are largely ignorant of how Biblical tradition has influenced and infused English literature through the centuries. An invaluable research tool. Contains nearly 800 encyclopedic articles written by a distinguished international roster of 190 contributors. Three detailed annotated bibliographies. Cross-references throughout.

Selected Studies in Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha with Special Reference to the Armenian Tradition

Selected Studies in Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha with Special Reference to the Armenian Tradition
Author: Michael Stone
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1991-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 900467554X

This work gathers the author's contributions to four central areas of the study of Ancient Jewish literature, "Enoch and the Testaments", "4 Ezra", "The Study of Ancient Judaism (particularly of apocalypticism)," and the development of apocryphal traditions in Armenian. It presents authoritative studies by a leading scholar in the field.

The Sixth Century: End or Beginning?

The Sixth Century: End or Beginning?
Author: Pauline Allen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 343
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004344705

Preliminary Material /Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Introduction /Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Inheriting the Fifth Century: Who Bequeathed What? /Philip Rousseau -- Writing the Reign of Justinian: Malalas versus Theophanes /Roger Scott -- Procopius and the Samaritans /Katherine Adshead -- Bury, Malalas and the Nika Riot /Michael Jeffreys -- The Chronicle of John Malalas, Book I: A Commentary /Elizabeth Jeffreys -- The Use of Pagan Mythology in the Christian Empire with Particular Reference to the Dionysiaca of Nonnus /Wolfgang Liebeschuetz -- Notes of Christian Epigrams in Book One of the Greek Anthology /Barry Baldwin -- The Reading of Paul the Silentiary /Ian Martlew -- Early Monasticism and Ps. Denys /Daniel Callam -- Impact of St Sabas: The Legacy of Palestinian Monasticism /Kathleen Hay -- Aspects of Spiritual Direction: The Palestinian Tradition /John Chryssavgis -- Junillus Africanus' Instituta Regularia Divinae Legis in its Justinianic Context /Michael Maas -- The Silence of the Sources: The Sixth Century and East-Syrian 'Antiochene ' Exegesis /Corrie Molenberg -- Severus of Antioch and the Homily: The End of the Beginning? /Pauline Allen -- The Sixth Century: A Turning-Point for Byzantine Homiletics? /Mary Cunningham -- Through the Tunnel with Leontius of Jerusalem: The Sixth-Century Transformation of Theology /Patrick Gray -- Christ's Image versus Christology: Thoughts on the Justinianic Era as Threshold of an Epoch /Karl-Heinz Uthemann -- Sixth-Century Art and Architecture in 'Old Rome ': End or Beginning? /Joan Barclay Lloyd -- Sixth-Century Ravenna from the Perspective of Abbot Agnellus /Ann Moffatt -- Forming and Transforming Proto-Byzantine Urban Public Space /Michael Milojević -- Byzantium, Planet Earth and the Solar System /Paul Farquharson -- Climatic Change in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries? /Johannes Koder -- General Index /Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Contributors /Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys.