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| Titre : | Pre-Christian Gnosticism : A Survey of the Proposed Evidences |
| Auteurs : | Edwin M. Yamauchi, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Mention d'édition : | 2nd ed. |
| Editeur : | Grand Rapids [USA] : Baker Book House, 1983 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8010-9919-9 |
| Format : | 278 p. / Bibliographie; index |
| Note générale : | 1st ed. 1973 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | NM (Manichéisme; gnosticisme) |
| Résumé : |
"One of the most important issues facing New Testament scholarship today is the issue of Gnosticism." So wrote the author in 1973 in the first edition. With the publication since then of the entire Nag Hammadi library, this observation has become even more incisive.
Was there a pre-Christian Gnosticism? Did Gnosticism directly or indirectly influence nascent Christianity? Many modern scholars argue that Gnosticism preceded the emergence of New Testament Christianity and constituted the raw material from which the apostles formed their message about Jesus. The author here analyzes the evidence used to support this thesis. He notes a series of methodological fallacies in the use of this evidence and concludes that clearly Gnostic materials are late and pre-Christian materials are not clearly Gnostic. A new chapter in this, the book’s first paperback edition, brings the discussion up to date. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Foreword (F. F. Bruce)
- Preface to the first edition / Preface to the second edition - Abbreviations - 1. 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 Synoptics, 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 - 8. 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 - 12. PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICISM RECONSIDERED A DECADE LATER: Introduction / New Testament Exegesis on the Basis of Pre-Christian Gnosticism / The Patristic Evidence / The Hermetic Evidence / The Iranian Evidence / The Syriac Evidence / The Coptic Evidence / The Mandaic Evidence / The Jewish Evidence / The Pre-Christian Redeemer Myth / Criticisms of Methodology - Bibliography - Index of subjects / Index of modern authors / Index of scriptures |
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