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Author : Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161449352
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (493 download)
Download or read book The Revelation of Elchasai written by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 1985 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans Dieter Betz
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161462047
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Paulinische Studien written by Hans Dieter Betz and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 1994 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antti Marjanen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004170383
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Second-Century Christian 'Heretics' written by Antti Marjanen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with thinkers and movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers but which are now largely forgotten or known only as "heretics": Basilides, Sethianism, Valentinus' school, Marcion, Tatian, Bardaisan, Montanists, Cerinthus, Ebionites, Nazarenes, Jewish-Christianity of the "Pseudo-Clementines," and Elchasites.
Author : John C. Reeves
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
ISBN 13 : 0878201319
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (782 download)
Download or read book Jewish Lore in Manichaean Cosmogony written by John C. Reeves and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work entitled the "Book of Giants" figures in every list of the Manichaean "canon" preserved from antiquity. Both the nature of this work and the intellectual baggage of the third-century Persian prophet to whom it is ascribed remained unknown to scholars until 1943, when fragments of several Middle Iranian versions of the Book of Giants were published by W. B. Henning. Twenty-eight years later, at Qumran, J. T. Milik discovered several copies of a fragmentary Aramaic work which is unquestionably the precursor of the later Manichaean recension. One other important work, Mani's "autobiography," the so-called Cologne Mani Codex, was brought to scholarly attention in 1970 with evidence that Mani spent his youth among the Elchasaites, a Judeo-Christian sect that observed the Sabbath, strict dietary laws, and rigorous purification practices. Although leading Orientalists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have consistently stressed the Iranian component in Mani's thought, Reeves argues, in the light of evidence drawn from the above-mentioned discoveries and from a rich panorama of other textual sources, that the fundamental structure of Manichaean cosmogony is ultimately indebted to Jewish exegetical expansions of Genesis 6:1-4. Reeves begins with an examination of the ancient testimonies about the contents of Mani's Book of Giants. Then, using documents from Second Temple Judaism, classical Gnostic literature, Christian and Muslim heresiological reports, Syriac texts, and Manichaean writings, he provides a detailed analysis of both the Qumran and Manichaean rescensions of the work, demonstrating additional interdependencies and suggesting new narrative arrangements. He addresses a series of quotations from an unnamed Manichaean source found in a paschal homily of the sixth-century Monophysite patriarch Severus of Antioch and a narrative from Thoeodore bar Konai. In sum, Reeves demonstrates that the motifs of Jewish Enochic literature, in particular those of the story of the Watchers and Giants, form the skeletal structure of Mani's cosmological teachings, and that Chapters 1 to 11 of Genesis fertilized Near Eastern thought, even to the borders of India and China.
Author : Jae Hee Han
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009297759
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East written by Jae Hee Han and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an interdisciplinary account of prophecy as a topic of discourse among various late antique Near Eastern communities. Against assumptions that prophecy ceased in the past, this book argues that it remained a topic of discourse among various Near Eastern communities.
Author : G. R. Beasley-Murray
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725228084
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book The Book of Revelation written by G. R. Beasley-Murray and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Beasley-Murray has made a special study of the Revelation, the notorious difficulties of which have challenged and fascinated him for many years. An essential key to the understanding of its enigmatic character is the realization that it comes within the category of apocalyptic literature, in which acknowledged symbols were used to disguise the real meaning. According to the author, that which "to the uninitiated modern reader appears grotesque imagery spoke with power to John's fellow-Christians . . ." Due weight is also given to the Christology of the book, which the author sees as inseparable from its eschatology.
Author : Brooke Folk
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503554414
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Revelation of Revelation written by Brooke Folk and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revelation of Revelation is a story never told before now because it wasn't to be told until now, according to scriptures. It didn't happen in a vision, not in a sudden rush of a mighty wind, but instead a gentle but profound inspiration.
Author : James C. VanderKam
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451403091
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Jewish Apocalyptic Heritage in Early Christianity, Volume 4 written by James C. VanderKam and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1996-12-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of apocalyptic influence on Jesus and early Christianity is again strongly contested. The issues connected with this question include terminology, genre, historical reconstruction, sectarian self-definition, and many others. This book provides a fresh assessment of the nature and significance of early Christian appropriation of Jewish apocalyptic material.
Author : Paul B. Fenton
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004119130
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Expérience et écriture mystiques dans les religions du livre written by Paul B. Fenton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume deals with the phenomenon of Writing and the Mystical Experience in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Particular emphasis is laid on this theme within Jewish mysticism in the various stages of its historical development. Methodological and phenomenological studies deal with the question in Antiquity, the Mediaeval period and Modern times.
Author : Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004145109
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Gnostic Revisions of Genesis Stories And Early Jesus Traditions written by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Darrell D. Hannah
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610971531
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Michael and Christ written by Darrell D. Hannah and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darrell D. Hannah engages the debate over 'angelomorphic Christology'. He shows that more than one form of angel or angelomorphic Christology was current in early Christianity and that Michael traditions in particular provided a conceptual framework in which Christ's heavenly significance was understood.
Author : William Adler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004275177
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature, Volume 4 Jewish Apocalyptic Heritage in Early Christianity written by William Adler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains five chapters which investigate the early Christian appropriations of Jewish apocalyptic material. An introductory chapter surveys ancient perceptions of the apocalyses as well as their function, authority, and survival in the early Church. The second chapter focuses on a specific tradition by exploring the status of the Enoch-literature, the use of the fallen-angel motif, and the identification of Enoch as an eschatological witness. Christian transmission of Jewish texts, a topic whose significance is more and more being recognized, is the subject of chapter three which analyzes what happend to 4,5 and 6 Ezra as they were copied and edited in Christian circles. Chapter four studies the early Christian appropriation and reinterpretation of Jewish apocalyptic chronologies, especially Daniel's vision of 70 weeks. The fifth and last chapter is devoted to the use and influence of Jewish apocalyptic traditions among Christian sectarian groups in Asia Minor and particularly in Egypt. Taken together these chapters written by four authors, offer illuminating examples of how Jewish apocalyptic texts and traditions fared in early Christianity. Editors James C. VanderKam is lecturing at the University of Notre Dame; William Adler is lecturer at North Carolina State University. Series: Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum Section 1 - The Jewish people in the first century Historial geography, political history, social, cultural and religious life and institutions Edited by S. Safrai and M. Stern in cooperation with D. Flusser and W.C. van Unnik Section 2 - The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud Section 3 - Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature
Author : Cynthia Kosso
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004173579
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity Through the Renaissance written by Cynthia Kosso and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays offer scholars, teachers, and students a new basis for discussing attitudes toward, and technological expertise concerning, water in antiquity through the early Modern period, and they examine historical water use and ideology both diachronically and cross regionally. Topics include gender roles and water usage; attitudes, practices, and innovations in baths and bathing; water and the formation of identity and policy; ancient and medieval water sources and resources; and religious and literary water imagery. The authors describe how ideas about the nature and function of water created and shaped social relationships, and how religion, politics, and science transformed, and were themselves transformed by, the manipulation of, uses of, and disputes over water in daily life, ceremonies, and literature. Contributors are Rabun Taylor, Sandra Lucore, Robert F. Sutton, Jr., Cynthia K Kosso, Kevin Lawton, Evy Johanne HA land, HA(c)lA]ne Cazes, Alexandra Cuffel, Mark Munn, Brenda Longfellow, Gretchen Meyers, Sara Saba, Scott John McDonough, Etienne Dunant, E. J. Owens, Mehmet TaAlAalan, Deborah Chatr Aryamontri, John Stephenson, Lin A. Ferrand, Paul Trio, Anne Scott, Misty Rae Urban, Ruth Stevenson, Charles Connell, Alyce Jordan, Ronald Cooley, and Irene Matthews.
Author : Yuri Stoyanov
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030019014X
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Other God written by Yuri Stoyanov and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-11 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVThis fascinating book explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battlegrounds between forces of good and evil. It traces this evolution from late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster and the Orphics in antiquity through the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Mithraic Mysteries, and the great Gnostic teachers to its revival in medieval Europe with the suppression of the Bogomils and the Cathars, heirs to the age-long teachings of dualism. Integrating political, cultural, and religious history, Yuri Stoyanov illuminates the dualist religious systems, recreating in vivid detail the diverse worlds of their striking ideas and beliefs, their convoluted mythologies and symbolism. Reviews of an earlier edition: “A book of prime importance for anyone interested in the history of religious dualism. The author’s knowledge of relevant original sources is remarkable; and he has distilled them into a convincing and very readable whole.”—Sir Steven Runciman “The most fascinating historical detective story since Steven Runciman’s Sicilian Vespers.”—Colin Wilson “A splendid account of the decline of the dualist tradition in the East . . . both strong and accessible. . . . The most readable account of Balkan heresy ever.”—Jeffrey B. Russell, Journal of Religion “Well-written, fact-filled, and fascinating . . . has in it the making of a classic.” —Harry T. Norris, Bulletin of SOAS/div/div
Author : David H. Warren
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9780391041479
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Early Christian Voices written by David H. Warren and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies in honor of Francois Bovon highlights the rich diversity found within early expressions of Christianity as evidenced in ancient texts, in early traditions and movements, and in archaic symbols and motifs.
Author : Guy G. Stroumsa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198738862
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity written by Guy G. Stroumsa and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity. The continuation of biblical prophecy runs like a thread from Jesus through Mani to Muhammad. And yet this thread, arguably the single most important characteristic of the Abrahamic movement, often remains outside the mainstream, hidden, as it were, since it generates heresy. The figures of the Gnostic, the holy man, and the mystic are all sequels of the Israelite prophet. They reflect a mode of religiosity that is characterized by high intensity. It is centripetal and activist by nature and emphasizes sectarianism and polemics, esoteric knowledge, or gnosis and charisma. The other mode of religiosity, obviously much more common than the first one, is centrifugal and irenic. It favors an ecumenical attitude, contents itself with a widely shared faith, or pistis, and reflects, in Weberian parlance, the routinization of the new religious movement. This is the mode of priests and bishops, rather than that of martyrs and holy men. These two main modes of religion, high versus low intensity, exist simultaneously, and cross the boundaries of religious communities. They offer a tool permitting us to follow the transformations of religion in late antiquity in general, and in ancient Christianity in particular, without becoming prisoners of the traditional categories of patristic literature. Through the dialectical relationship between these two modes of religiosity, one can follow the complex transformations of ancient Christianity in its broad religious context.
Author : Richard Bauckham
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 080282739X
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Old Testament Pseudepigrapha written by Richard Bauckham and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents the sacred legends and spiritual reflections of numerous works that were lost, neglected, or suppressed for many centuries.
