Heralds of That Good Realm: Syro-Mesopotamian Gnosis and Jewish Traditions (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies)

Heralds of That Good Realm: Syro-Mesopotamian Gnosis and Jewish Traditions (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies)

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Book Description
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 contained in the Codex, and offers hypotheses regarding the original provenance of each citation and the means by which these traditions have been adapted to their present context. This study is an important contribution to the scholarly reassessment of the roles played by Second Temple Judaism, Jewish Christian sectarianism, and classical gnosis in the formulation and development of Syro-Mesopotamian religious currents.

Heralds of That Good Realm: Syro-Mesopotamian Gnosis and Jewish Traditions (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies),John C. Reeves,Brill Academic Publishers,9004104593,Apocryphal books (Old Testamen,Apocryphal books (Old Testament),Architecture,Cologne Mani codex,Gnosticism,History,Interior Design - General,Iraq,Judaism,Manichaeism,Religion,Syria

Book Contents:

1. Historia and Fabula: Myths and Legends in Historical Thought from Antiquity to the Modern Age (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
2. Im Licht Der Traditionen: Psalm 67 Und 115, Ein Entwicklungszusammenhang (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum)
3. Immigration and Ethnic Formation in a Deeply Divided Society: The Case of the 1990's Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology)
4. Index to Periodical Literature for the Study of the New Testament (New Testament Tools and Studies)
5. Ingessana: The Religious Institutions of a People of the Sudan-Ethiopia Borderland (Studies of Religion in Africa)
6. Inside Design Now
7. Instant Interiors: Quick Fix, Cheap Chic, Fast Style
8. Integral Equations and Iteration Methods in Electromagnetic Scattering
9. Interpretation in Religion (Philosophy and Religion)
10. Inventarium Sive Chirurgia Magna: Commentary (Studies in Ancient Medicine , No 14,2)

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