Pre-Christian Gnosticism : a survey of the proposed evidences /

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Author / Creator:Yamauchi, Edwin M.
Edition:First edition
Imprint:Grand Rapids : Eerdmans, [1973]
©1973
Description:208 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13234143
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ISBN:0802834299
9780802834294
0851117325
9780851117324
Notes:"An expansion of the Tyndale lecture for Biblical archaeology presented ... in July 1970."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194).
committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Summary:"An expansion of the Tyndale lecture for Biblical archaeology presented ... in July 1970." Bibliography: p. [187]-194. 106856.

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505 0 |a I. Introduction -- Problems in defining Gnosticism -- Post-Christian Gnosticism -- Pre-Christian Gnosticism -- The present situation -- 2. New Testament exegesis on the basis of pre-Christian Gnosticism -- The Gnostic redeemer myth -- The gospel of John -- The synoptic, Acts -- The Pauline corpus -- Hebrews -- James -- The Petrine Epistles, Jude -- The Johannine epistles -- The apocalypse -- 3. The patristic evidence -- Dositheus -- Simon Magus -- The Apophasis Megale -- Ignatius -- 4. The hermetic evidence -- Reitzenstein's Poimandres -- The Gnosticism of the hermetica -- The date of the hermetica -- 5. The Iranian evidence -- The Iranian sources -- Reitzenstein and the Iranian redeemer myth -- Manichaeism -- 6. The Syriac evidence -- The rise of Syriac Christianity -- Bauer's thesis -- The Gospel of Thomas -- The Odes of Solomon -- The hymn of the pearl -- Bardaisan -- 7. The Coptic evidence -- The Nag Hammadi Corpus -- Eugnostos and the Sophia of Jesus Christ -- The Apocalypse of Adam -- The Paraphrase of Shem -- The Mandaic evidence -- Positive evaluation of the Mandaica as early evidence -- Negative evaluation of the Mandaica as early evidence -- Recent re-evaluations -- The role of John the Baptist -- Arguments from the Colophons and from Epigraphy -- The Haran Gawaita -- The alleged Jewish origins of Mandaeism -- A proposed reconstruction -- 9. The Jewish evidence -- The use of the Old Testament -- The Apocrypha and Jewish wisdom -- Philo of Alexandria -- The Minim in Rabbinical sources -- Merkabah mysticism -- The Dead Sea Scrolls -- Apocalypticism -- The Maghariyah -- Anti-Jewish sentiments and a Jewish origin of Gnosticism -- Jewish Gnosticism -- 10. The pre-Christian redeemer myth -- Reitzenstein's and Bultmann's pre-Christian redeemer myth -- A post-Christian development of the redeemer myth -- Gnosticism without the redeemer myth -- 11. Criticisms of methodology -- The use of late sources -- Parts for the whole -- The New Testament itself as evidence -- Parallels and dependence -- The appeal to authority -- Non-Christian therefore pre-Christian? -- Conclusions. 
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