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Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity

Author : Birger A. Pearson
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451404340
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity written by Birger A. Pearson and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Gnosticism and Christianity in Roman and Coptic Egypt

Author : Birger Albert Pearson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780567026101
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Gnosticism and Christianity in Roman and Coptic Egypt written by Birger Albert Pearson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides significant insights into the rise of early Christianity in Egypt and its impact on Christianity in Palestine.

Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity

Author : Birger Albert Pearson
Publisher : Continuum
ISBN 13 : 9780800631048
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity written by Birger Albert Pearson and published by Continuum. This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of the relationships and mutual impact of Gnosticism, ancient Judaism, and early Egyptian Christianity.

The Wisdom of Egypt

Author : Anthony Hilhorst
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047407679
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of Egypt written by Anthony Hilhorst and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, published on the occasion of Gerard Luttikhuizen’s retirement, highlights the Egyptian subject-matter, background or provenance of many Jewish, Early Christian, and Gnostic texts. It covers a broad spectrum of themes, genres, and traditions. It shows that Egypt was a vibrant point of reference, sometimes even a focal point and cradle for Jews, Christians, and Gnostics and their thought. The first part of this book examines various aspects of the relation between Judaism and Egypt, mainly in the Graeco-Roman period. The second part deals with several connections between early Christianity and Egypt, whereas the third part considers Egypt as the place where many Gnostic texts were found. This collection pays homage to Gerard Luttikhuizen’s life-long interest in Egypt and Gnosticism.

The Gnostic New Age

Author : April D. DeConick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542046
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Gnostic New Age written by April D. DeConick and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity. Before it emerged in the second century, passage to the afterlife required obedience to God and king. Gnosticism proposed that human beings were manifestations of the divine, unsettling the hierarchical foundations of the ancient world. Subversive and revolutionary, Gnostics taught that prayer and mediation could bring human beings into an ecstatic spiritual union with a transcendent deity. This mystical strain affected not just Christianity but many other religions, and it characterizes our understanding of the purpose and meaning of religion today. In The Gnostic New Age, April D. DeConick recovers this vibrant underground history to prove that Gnosticism was not suppressed or defeated by the Catholic Church long ago, nor was the movement a fabrication to justify the violent repression of alternative forms of Christianity. Gnosticism alleviated human suffering, soothing feelings of existential brokenness and alienation through the promise of renewal as God. DeConick begins in ancient Egypt and follows with the rise of Gnosticism in the Middle Ages, the advent of theosophy and other occult movements in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and contemporary New Age spiritual philosophies. As these theories find expression in science-fiction and fantasy films, DeConick sees evidence of Gnosticism's next incarnation. Her work emphasizes the universal, countercultural appeal of a movement that embodies much more than a simple challenge to religious authority.

Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy

Author : A. H. B. Logan
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567097330
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy written by A. H. B. Logan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World of Early Egyptian Christianity

Author : D. W Johnson
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813214807
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The World of Early Egyptian Christianity written by D. W Johnson and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With increasing interest in early Egyptian (Coptic) Christianity, this volume offers an important collection of essays about Coptic language, literature, and social history by the very finest authors in the field. The essays explore a wide range of topics and offer much to the advancement of Coptic studies

What is Gnosticism?

Author : Karen L. King
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674017627
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book What is Gnosticism? written by Karen L. King and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of gnosticism examines the various ways early Christians strove to define themselves in a pluralistic Roman society, while questioning the traditional ideas of heresy and orthodoxy that have previously influenced historians.

Gnostic Religion in Antiquity

Author : R. van den Broek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107031370
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Gnostic Religion in Antiquity written by R. van den Broek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Gnostic religion in Late Antiquity within its historical and religious context, using Greek, Latin and Coptic sources.

The Codex Judas Papers

Author : April D. DeConick
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004181407
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Codex Judas Papers written by April D. DeConick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings from the Codex Judas Congress, the first international conference held to discuss the newly-restored Tchacos Codex. Given that the Tchacos Codex is a newly-conserved ancient book of Christian manuscripts which had yet to be discussed collaboratively by a body of scholars, the research conducted and published within this book by the members of the Codex Judas Congress is nothing less than a landmark in Gnostic studies. Scholars address issues of identity and community, portraits of Judas, astrological lore, salvation and praxis, text and intertext, and manuscript matters. Although the contributions show a variety of interpretations of the Tchacos texts, several points of agreement emerge, including the assessment that the Codex belonged to early Christians in conflict with other Christians who belonged to the apostolic or conventional church. Contributors include: Grant Adamson, Johanna Brankaer, Fernando Bermejo Rubio, Serge Cazelais, April D. DeConick, Ismo Dunderberg, Niclas Förster, Wolf-Peter Funk, Simon Gathercole, Matteo Grosso, Lance Jenott, Karen King, Nicola Denzey Lewis, Alastair Logan, Antti Marjanen, Marvin Meyer, Elaine Pagels, Birger A. Pearson, Pierluigi Piovanelli, James M. Robinson, Gesine Schenke Robinson, Kevin Sullivan, Franklin Trammel, Johannes van Oort, Bas van Os, Louis Painchaud, Tage Petersen, John D. Turner, and Gregor Wurst.

The Figure of Solomon in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Tradition

Author : Joseph Verheyden
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004242910
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Figure of Solomon in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Tradition written by Joseph Verheyden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference on Solomon that was held at the University of Leuven in 2009 and discussed various aspects of this multifaced character as he appears in Jewish, early Christian, and Islamic tradition.

The Gnostic Imagination

Author : Deutsch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004672508
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Gnostic Imagination written by Deutsch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first to survey and systematically evaluate the history of scholarship on the relationship between Gnosticism and Merkabah mysticism. In addition, it offers new interpretations on primary sources and suggests topics for future research.

Backgrounds of Early Christianity

Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467422398
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Backgrounds of Early Christianity written by Everett Ferguson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2003-08-19 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having long served as a standard introduction to the world of the early church, Everett Ferguson's Backgrounds of Early Christianity has been expanded and updated in this third edition. The book explores and unpacks the Roman, Greek, and Jewish political, social, religious, and philosophical backgrounds necessary for a good historical understanding of the New Testament and the early church. New to this edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, and fresh discussions of first-century social life, of Gnosticism, and of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Jewish literature.

Hellenization Revisited

Author : Institute for Christian Studies
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819195449
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Hellenization Revisited written by Institute for Christian Studies and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1994 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the role of Judaism, particularly that of Philo, and of Gnosticism, as two important forces shaping the response of early Christianity to the Hellenistic Greco-Roman culture of its time. The sections which examine Hellenistic Judaism investigate themes from Greek philosophy, like 'reason controlling the passions, ' which are also crucial in shaping Philo's perception of the feminine. The manner in which Jewish authors of this period attempt to synthesize Old Testament with Greek philosophical themes like creation/cosmology receives specific treatment. Essays dealing with Gnosticism re-examine themes from Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle in Gnostic documents, but also look at the role of Hellenistic Judaism with its interests in Sophia. Co-published with the Institute for Christian Studies

Guardians of the Gate

Author : Nathaniel Deutsch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004109094
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Guardians of the Gate written by Nathaniel Deutsch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the phenomenon of angelic vice regency in Late Antiquity. It comparatively examines figures from Judaism, Mandaeism, and Gnosticism, shedding new light, in particular, on the Jewish angel Metatron and the Mandaean light-being Abathur.

The Use of Scripture in the Apocryphon of John

Author : David Creech
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161529832
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book The Use of Scripture in the Apocryphon of John written by David Creech and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Creech explores at length the Apocryphon of John's ambivalent treatment of the Jewish and Christian scriptures. Although Moses is explicitly corrected at five points in the text, Genesis' account of creation is nonetheless the basis for the Apocryphon's cosmogony and anthropogony. Its uneven treatment of the biblical text is the result of a dispute between the authors of the Apocryphon and other early Catholics. At the earliest stage of the text the Christians who wrote and read the Apocryphon worshiped alongside other early catholic Christians without any sense of contradiction or inconsistency. The key shift in the Apocryphon occurred after Irenaeus of Lyons' assault on "Knowledge Falsely So-Called." In response to his concerted effort to bring the church under the authority of early catholic bishops, the framers inserted corrections to Moses. The corrections are primarily rhetorical and used to refute early catholic identity markers.

Eusebius, Christianity and Judaism

Author : Gohei Hata
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004509135
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Eusebius, Christianity and Judaism written by Gohei Hata and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eusebius of Caesarea lived at a crucial turning point in the history of the Christian church. He was an important witness to the polemical and apologetic attitudes that characterized much early Christian literature. The most voluminous writer of the early fourth century, he was also the first comprehensive historian of his community seeking a philosophy to explain the whole course of history from the beginning to his own time. This volume places Eusebius' work in proper perspective. The contributors, all recognized specialists in early Christianity, shed light on the person and circumstances of Eusebius himself. This collection of essays focuses on elements of the story that Eusebius tells — the story of the early church, its relationship to Judaism, or its confrontation with the Roman Empire — and explores gaps left by Eusebius. The writers offer a cross-section of current scholarly methods in the study of early Christianity and Judaism.