Early Christianity
The codices came to public and scholarly attention through a complex series of transactions. Muhammad Ali’s mother seems to have ...
now numbered Codex I, was filled with similar texts, including anApocryphon of Jamesand a Gospel of Truth. When the whole of the ...
This view has found its way into a recent best-selling novel. In Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, an eccentric English histo- rian ...
of Lyons had recounted how the Gnostics ‘introduce an infinite multitude of apocryphal and bastard scriptures that they them- se ...
Such ideas of an incomprehensible and unperceivable pre-existing deity are found in various of the Nag Hammadi tracts. In the Ap ...
Several of the Nag Hammadi writings also provide varia- tions on the story of the world’s creation found in the book of Genesis. ...
heresiologists to penetrating criticism, arguing that investigations of heresy were ‘usually done with implicit, or even explici ...
And there shall be others of those who are outside our number who name themselves bishops and also deacons, as if they have rece ...
third-century AD Mesopotamian mystic Mani, and even the Mandaeans, a sect still to be found in small numbers in Iran and Iraq. H ...
so-called’). The issue for Irenaeus was that the form of know- ledge against which he was arguing was a false one. Furthermore, ...
in using the words gno ̄ stikosandgno ̄ sisin a positive rather than pejorative sense. But Clement’s writings hint that there ma ...
When those Greek originals were composed has been a topic for vigorous debate. For example, Elaine Pagels has proposed that theG ...
was the famous Pachomius or some other man of that name cannot be ascertained (Goehring 2001: 236–9). These factors have prompte ...
rejected it outright (Rousseau 1999: xvii–xxxiii, 19–28). A recent examination of the evidence remarks circumspectly: ‘While it ...
from the rest of the church is usually considered in a third-century context, which is where Eusebius discusses it (Ecclesiastic ...
Eusebius tells us, in the early third century by bishop Serapion of Antioch in Syria (Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History6.12). For ...
broader still: when one new translation of the texts (Layton 1987) was reissued in paperback in 1995, its cover bore an illustra ...
Such comments illustrate the different levels at which the debate on the Nag Hammadi library in particular and early Christianit ...
Chapter 6 Confronting Babylon: early Christianity and the Roman empire Consider the following episodes from the New Testament ac ...
Pilate also wrote a placard and put it on the cross; it read, ‘Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.’ Many of the Jews read t ...
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