Nag Hammadi, gnosticism & early Christianity / contributors, Harold W. Attridge ... [et al.] ; edited by Charles W. Hedrick and Robert Hodgson, Jr.

Contributor Attridge, Harold W.

Imprint:Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers, c1986.

Descriptionxliv, 332 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Note:Cover subtitle: Fourteen leading scholars discuss the current issues in Gnostic studies.

Note:Papers circulated and discussed at the Working Seminar on Gnosticism and Early Christianity, held in Springfield, Mo., from Mar. 30 to Apr. 2, 1983.

Note:Includes indexes: Index of ancient texts ; Index of modern authors.

Note:I. NON-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICISM: The problem of "Jewish gnostic" literature / Birger A. Pearson -- The riddle of the thunder (NHC VI,2): the function of paradox in a Gnostic text from Nag Hammadi / Bentley Layton -- Sethian Gnosticism: a literary history / John D. Turner -- II. GNOSTICISM, NEW TESTAMENT, AND EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE: Gnosticism and the church of John's Gospel / George W. MacRae -- Gnostic sayings and controversy traditions in John 8:12-59 / Helmut Koester -- The function and background of the beloved disciple in the Gospel of John / Hans-Martin Schenke -- On bridging the gulf from Q to the Gospel of Thomas (or vice versa) / James M. Robinson -- The use of early Christian literature as evidence for inner diversity and conflict / Frederik Wisse -- III. GNOSTICISM AND THE EARLY CHURCH: Gnostic and orthodox disciples in the second and third centuries/ Douglas M. Parrott -- Ordering the cosmos: Irenaeus and the Gnostics / Pheme Perkins -- The Gospel of Truth as an exoteric text / Harold W. Attridge -- Exegesis and exposition of the Genesis creation accounts in selected text from Nag Hammadi / Elaine H. Pagels -- With Walter Bauer on the Tigris: Encratite orthodoxy and libertine heresy in Syro-Mesopotamian Christianity / Stephen Gero.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. xv-xliv.

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