Gnosticism And The New Testament
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PrefaceIntroduction1Pt. 1Gnostic Origins1The Search for Pre-Christian Gnosticism9Simon Magus9Jewish Syncretism10Gnostic Mythemes and Alienation12A Demonized World152Gnosticism and the Jewish Connection20A Samaritan Origin?20Linguistic Evidence for Palestinian Traditions22Enoch Traditions in Gnostic Mythology24Anti-Jewish Midrash25Christianizing Early Gnostic Traditions263Gnostic Influence and the New Testament29Variations on the Redeemer Figure29Gnostic Elements in the New Testament31Cultic Innovation and Mythology344Reconstructing Gnostic History39On the Margins of Judaism40Gnostic Teachers of the Second Century42Valentinians44Sethian Tradition History45Pt. 2Gnostic and New Testament Traditions5Jesus as Teacher of Wisdom: Sayings and Revelation53Gospel of Thomas and the Sayings Tradition53Dialogue of the Savior54Sayings in Gospel of Truth56Kingdom Parables and Gnosis59Recovering the Divine Image66Praxis in Gospel of Thomas696Gnosis and the Pauline Tradition74Pauline Opponents (Schmithals)74Gnostic Mythemes and Pauline Anthropology80Eschatology and Anthropology83The Divine Image857Redeemer Myths and New Testament Hymns93The Revealer Appears in the World93The Powers React96Christianizing the Gnostic Redeemer101The Revealer in Zostrianos102The Revealer in Gospel of the Egyptians1048Jesus as Word109Wisdom and Myth in John's Prologue109A Gnostic Reading of John's Prologue112John's Prologue and Trimorphic Protennoia114The Word as Revealer1179Discourses of the Revealer122Jesus Reveals God122Postresurrection Revelations124The Style of the Revelation Discourse127Johannine Discourse and the Sayings Tradition (Koester)130"I Am" Predications as Text and Riddle132Discourse and the Elect Community134Pt. 3Gnostic Christianity10Gnostic Identity: Conversion and Asceticism145Interpretation and Antinomianism145The Danger of the Demonic149A Call to Conversion152Salvation and Metaphor in Gospel of Truth154Conflict over Ascetic Practice156The Rhetoric of 1 John and Gospel of Truth15911Women Disciples and Worshipers164Women in the Marcosian Sect164Women in Pauline Traditions165The Ambiguity of the Feminine167The Suffering of Wisdom169Repentance Displaces Wisdom17012Christians: Gnostic and Orthodox177Gnostic Christian Writings177Irenaeus Against the Gnostics179Jesus' Disciples in Gnostic Sources181Christian Gnostics and Religious Pluralism185Christian Gnostics and the Gospel Canon190Abbreviations195Notes199Glossary234Bibliography239Index of Ancient Sources249Index of Modern Authors259
