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The Interpretation of the Old Testament in Greco-Roman Paganism
Author: John Granger Cook
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9783161484742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →According to the available evidence not many pagans knew the Greek Bible (Septuagint) before the advent of Christianity. Those pagans who later became aware of Christian texts were among the first, according to the surviving data, to seriously explore the Septuagint. They found the Bible to be difficult reading. The pagans who reacted to biblical texts include Celsus (II C.E.), Porphyry (III C.E.), and Julian the Apostate (IV C.E.). These authors thought that if they could refute one of the primary foundations of Christianity, namely its use or interpretation of the Septuagint, then the new religion would perhaps crumble. John Granger Cook analyzes these pagans' voice and elaborates on its importance, since it shows how Septuagint texts appeared in the eyes of Greco-Roman intellectuals. Theirs was not an abstract interest, however, because they knew that Christianity posed a grave danger to some of their dearest beliefs, self-understanding, and way of life.
The Paraphrase of Shem (NH VII,1)
Author: Michel Roberge
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-06-14
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9004185852
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the Paraphrase of Shem, Codex VII, 1 in the Coptic Nag Hammdi Library. The translation, which sets out the text in paragraphs with headings and subheadings, is followed by a commentary.
Poetics of the Gnostic Universe
Author: Zlatko Pleše
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006-07-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9047404025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The monograph examines the cosmological section of the Apocryphon of John, a fully narrated version of the classic Gnostic myth. The author argues that the Apocryphon’s ‘world hypothesis’ is inseparable from the epistemological, theological, and aesthetic debates within contemporary Platonism.
Valentinianism: New Studies
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-10-07
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9004414819
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Valentinianism: New Studies offers fresh contributions by leading experts on the history of the Valentinian “Gnostic” church, on contested aspects of Valentinian doctrine, and on the use and interpretation of the New Testament by the Valentinians.
The Origins of the Eucharistic Prayer
Author: Enrico Mazza
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780814661192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this critical analysis Enrico Mazza concentrates on structure as he traces the evolution of the Eucharistic Prayer from its origins in the ancient Jewish rites and its Christian beginnings in the Didache. He then examines the paleoanaphoras of the early centuries and moves through the origin and progressive development of the larger anaphoric families (Alexandran, Roman, Antiochene), showing the influence of the Jewish rites on the formation of the Christian texts, and arriving finally at the classical anaphoras of the fourth century.
Analecta Gregoriana
New Techniques for Proving Plagiarism
Author: M. V. Dougherty
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-05-23
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9004699856
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book demonstrates that the principles of textual criticism—borrowed from the fields of classics and medieval studies—have a valuable application for plagiarism investigations. Plagiarists share key features with medieval scribes who worked in scriptoriums and produced copies of manuscripts. Both kinds of copyists—scribes and plagiarists—engage in similar processes, and they commit distinctive copying errors. When committed by plagiarists, these copying errors have probative value for making determinations that a text is copied, and hence, unoriginal. To show the efficacy of the newly proposed techniques for proving plagiarism, case studies are drawn from philosophy, theology, and canon law.
Dictionary Catalogue of the Byzantine Collection of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Dumbarton Oaks
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 746
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Nag Hammadi Library after Fifty Years
Author: Turner
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9004439749
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume contains 22 papers originally delivered at the Society of Biblical Literature's 1995 commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library. Of these papers, five focus on the theme "Past, Present, and Future Research on the Nag Hammadi Codices" (J.M. Robinson, S. Emmel, B.A. Pearson, H.-M. Schenke, E.M. Yamauchi); thirteen stem from three seminars respectively devoted to the Apocryphon of John (M. Waldstein, F. Wisse, K.L. King, and S. LaPorta), the Gospel of Thomas and the Thomasine tradition (P.-H. Poirier, P.H. Sellew, J.-M. Sevrin, I. Dunderberg, S.R. Johnson, A. DeConick), and the Gospel of Philip ( E. Pagels, E. Thomassen, M. Turner); and two deal with the Valentinian school (C. Markschies, L. Painchaud & T. Janz).
