Heralds of That Good Realm: Syro-Mesopotamian Gnosis and Jewish Traditions
This volume examines the transmission of biblical pseudepigraphic literature and motifs from their largely Jewish cultural contexts in Palestine to developing gnostic milieux of Syria and Mesopotamia, particularly that one lying behind the birth and growth of Manichaeism. It surveys biblical pseudepigraphic literary activity in the late antique Near East, devoting special attention to revelatory works attributed to the five biblical forefathers who are cited in the Cologne Mani Codex: Adam, Seth, Enosh, Shem, and Enoch.The author provides a philological, literary, and religio-historical analysis of each of the five pseudepigraphic citations c…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-90-04-10459-4
- EAN: 9789004104594
- Produktnummer: 1576504
- Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 254 S.
- Masse: H24.9 cm x B16.8 cm x D2.2 cm 608 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 41
- Gewicht: 608
Über den Autor
John C. Reeves, Ph.D. (1989), Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, is Blumenthal Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Jewish Lore in Manichaean Cosmogony (HUC Press, 1992) and of diverse articles exploring intertextual relationships among varieties of Judaism, Christianity, gnostic communities, and Islam.
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