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050 00 $aBR166$b.B496 2013
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245 00 $aBeyond the Gnostic Gospels :$bstudies building on the work of Elaine Pagels /$cedited by Eduard Iricinschi, Lance Jenott, Nicola Denzey Lewis and Philippa Townsend.
264 1 $aTübingen :$bMohr Siebeck,$c[2013]
264 4 $c©2013
300 $ax, 517 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aStudien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum,$x1436-3003 ;$v82 =$aStudies and texts in antiquity and Christianity ;$v82
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tExplorations at the edges of orthodoxy: Elaine Pagels' study of the early Christian world /$rPhilippa Townsend --$tPart I: The social world of early Christians: A Life Full of Meaning and Purpose: Demiurgical Myths and Social Implications /$rMichael A. Williams --$tRethinking the Diversity of Ancient Christianity: Responding to Suffering and Persecution /$rKaren L. King --$tThe Valentinian Materials in James (NHC V,3 and CT,2) /$rEinar Thomassen --$tPart II: Creating orthodoxy and heresy: Irenaeus, the Will of God, and Anti-Valentinian Polemics: A Closer Look at Against the Heresies I.12.1 /$rGeoffrey S. Smith --$tNor is one ambiguity resolved by another ambiguity: Irenaeus of Lyons and the Rhetoric of Interpretation /$rDavid W. Jorgensen --$tGnostic Spirituality at the Crossroads of Christianity: Transgressing Boundaries and Creating Orthodoxy /$rApril D. DeConick --$tPart III: Ritual and myth: The Problem of Bad Baptisms: Rethinking Early Christian Initiation and Its Implications /$rNicola Denzey Lewis --$tBaptismal Vision, Angelification, and Mystical Union in Sethian Literature /$rJohn D. Turner --$tThought, Forethought, and Afterthought in the Secret Book of John /$rMarvin Meyer --$tPart IV: Christianity in Egypt: Begotten, Not Made, to Arise in This Flesh: The Post-Nicene Soteriology of the Gospel of Philip /$rHugo Lundhaug --$tBuried and Raised: Gospel of Thomas Logion 5 and Resurrection /$rAnneMarie Luijendijk --$tThe Teaching Hidden in Silence (NH II 1,4): Questions, Answers, and Secrets in a Fourth-Century Egyptian Book /$rEduard Iricinschi --$tClergy, Clairvoyance, and Conflict: The Synod of Latopolis and the Problem with Pachomius' Visions /$rLance Jenott --$tJesus, Mary and Joseph in Egypt /$rDeirdre Good --$tPart V: New Testament studies: How Far Can You Go? Jesus, John, the Synoptics and Other Texts /$rIsmo Dunderberg --$tPlato, Plutarch, and John: Three Symposia about Love /$rHarold W. Attridge --$tJesus and the Tradition of the Elders: Originalism and Traditionalism in Early Judean Legal Theory /$rHolger M. Zellentin --$tPaul the Zealot, A Man of Constant Sorrow /$rJohn G. Gager --$t6 Ezra and Jewish Reception of Revelation /$rJohn W. Marshall
520 $aThis volume gathers contributions from both junior and senior scholars whose studies have developed in dialogue with Elaine Pagels' work on Nag Hammadi literature and ancient heresiology. Published initially in 1979, Pagels' The Gnostic Gospels represents a landmark of scholarship in religious studies. It not only made the Nag Hammadi writings and Gnosticism popular topics in modern culture, it also invited scholars to rethink early Christianity from new perspectives. What were previously seen as dry theological arguments and intricate Gnostic mythologies received new interpretations in the Gnostic Gospels as echoes of political debates about orthodoxy and heresy, clerical authority, martyrdom and gender. After The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels extended her research in various directions, from perceptions of sexuality in early Christianity and identity politics in the Christian creation of the "Satan figure" to ancient biblical interpretations, ritual in Nag Hammadi texts, and, recently, the Gospel of Judas and ancient apocalypses. The studies included in this volume engage each stage of Pagels' vast trajectory, and provide critical evaluations of the field of "Gnosticism studies" as it has developed over the past four decades, in the subfields of the "Sethian" and "Valentinian" schools, and beyond. The studies include new interpretations of the Nag Hammadi texts and fresh analyses of ancient heresiological literature.
650 0 $aChurch history$yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
650 0 $aChristian literature, Early$xHistory and criticism.
600 10 $aPagels, Elaine H.,$d1943-
700 1 $aPagels, Elaine H.,$d1943-
700 1 $aIricinschi, Eduard,$d1968-
700 1 $aJenott, Lance,$d1980-
700 1 $aLewis, Nicola Denzey,$d1966-
700 1 $aTownsend, Philippa,$d1975-
830 0 $aStudien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ;$v82.