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The apocryphon of John and other Coptic translations.
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ISBN: 0961380535 Year: 1987 Publisher: Baltimore Halgo

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L'Apocrifo di Giovanni : introduzione storico-critica ; con una nuova traduzione del testo
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ISBN: 9788843098293 8843098292 Year: 2019 Publisher: Roma: Carocci,

The secret revelation of John
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ISBN: 0674039602 9780674039605 9780674030558 0674030559 0674019032 0674265122 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,

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Karen L. King offers an illuminating reading of this ancient text, said to be Christ's revelation to his disciple John. In her analysis, the Revelation becomes a comprehensible religious vision--and a window on the religious culture of the Roman Empire. A translation of the complete Secret Revelation of John is included.

Poetics of the Gnostic universe : narrative and cosmology in the Apocryphon of John
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ISBN: 9004116745 9789004116740 9786611384333 128138433X 9047404025 9789047404026 9789047404026 9781281384331 Year: 2006 Volume: 52 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This volume is both an essay in Gnostic poetics and a study in the history of early Christian appropriation of ancient philosophy. The object of study is the cosmological model of the Apocryphon of John , a first-hand and fully narrated version of the Gnostic myth. The author examines his target text against a complex background of religious and philosophical systems, literary theories, and rhetorical techniques of the period, and argues that the world model of the Apocryphon of John is inseparable from the epistemological, theological, and aesthetic debates within contemporary Platonism. Poetics of the Gnostic Universe also discusses the composition and narrative logic of the Apocryphon of John , explores its revisionist attitude towards various literary models (Plato’s Timaeus , Wisdom literature, Genesis), and analyzes its peculiar discursive strategy of conjoining seemingly disconnected symbolic ‘codes’ while describing the derivation of a multi-layered universe from a single transcendent source.

Gnostic revisions of Genesis stories and early Jesus traditions
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ISSN: 09292470 ISBN: 9004145109 9047417054 9789004145108 9789047417057 Year: 2006 Volume: 58 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This book argues that the intellectuals behind early Gnostic revisions of Genesis stories were second-century Christians with an ideological background in Greek-Hellenistic philosophy, who adopted and reinterpreted biblical narrative materials with a view to exposing the inferiority of the creator-God of Genesis and the ignorance of those Christians who continued to worship this God. It also discusses controversies between Gnostic and early orthodox Christians about the person and the mission of Jesus Christ. The first part examines the possible polemical function, the philosophical thought structure, and the narrative scheme of the Genesis rewritings, and continues with studies of individual episodes of the Gnostic myth, from the creation of Adam up to the story of Noah and the Flood. The second part focuses on Gnostic reinterpretations of the teaching and the passion of Jesus. The book includes essays about Gnostic theology, ancient and modern readings of Gnostic texts, and an appendix dealing with the ancient baptist community in which Mani was reared.

The secret revelation of John
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ISBN: 0674019032 9780674019034 0674030559 0674039602 0674265122 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,

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Karen L. King offers an illuminating reading of this ancient text, said to be Christ's revelation to his disciple John. In her analysis, the Revelation becomes a comprehensible religious vision--and a window on the religious culture of the Roman Empire. A translation of the complete Secret Revelation of John is included.


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Le livre des secrets de Jean : recension brève (NH III,1 et BG,2)
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ISBN: 9789042923218 9782763793801 9782758400974 9042923210 Year: 2012 Volume: 35 Publisher: Louvain: Peeters,

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Le Livre des secrets de Jean a reçu, à juste titre, le nom de « Bible gnostique ». C'est en effet dans ce traité que nous a été conservée la version la plus complète du mythe auquel se référaient les gnostiques qui faisaient de Seth, troisième fils d'Adam, leur ancêtre. L'auteur y présente une synthèse de l'histoire universelle. On assiste d'abord à la constitution d'un modèle céleste conçu à partir d'une Première Pensée du Grand Esprit invisible, Pensée qui se multiplie jusqu'à produire un modèle parfait constitué de vingt-deux éons, dont le dernier est Sophia, la Sagesse. Mais celle-ci ne pourra résister au désir de construire ce modèle au-delà du nombre parfait et donnera naissance à un 23e éon, celui de l'Archonte. Exclu du modèle mais en gardant le souvenir, l'Archonte en construira une contrefaçon, notre monde, dans lequel il manifestera cette part de connaissance dont il a dépossédé sa Mère. Toute l'histoire de l'humanité, de la création d'Adam au retour annoncé de Seth à la fin des temps, doit alors être interprétée comme une guerre de libération de cette connaissance prisonnière, une guerre dont les hommes, partagés en deux camps, seraient à la fois les victimes et les acteurs. Au moment où l'auteur écrit, rien n'est joué, la domination de l'Archonte est encore universelle, mais grâce à la révélation du « Livre des secrets », l'humanité dispose enfin de cette connaissance qui permettra à ceux qui appartiennent à la semence de Seth de trouver le chemin du retour vers ce monde intelligible auquel ils appartiennent. Cette version du mythe séthien, composée au cours du second siècle de notre ère, nous est parvenue sous deux formes dont la plus longue a retenu l'attention des commentateurs du fait de ses affinités avec l'Évangile de Jean. Celle qui est publiée et commentée dans ce volume, la plus brève et la plus ancienne, n'a été christianisée que superficiellement et conserve encore intacte une version du mythe séthien qui se présente, pour l'essentiel, comme une interprétation du modèle biblique hébreu faite en fonction des règles de l'hermeneutique juive de la période du Second Temple. Un document précieux pour notre connaissance des origines juives du mouvement gnostique.


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The use of scripture in the Apocryphon of John : a diachronic analysis of the variant versions
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ISBN: 3161529839 9783161529832 Year: 2017 Volume: 441 Publisher: Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck,

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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.

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