Fairen As Below, So Above

Apocalypticism, Gnosticism and the Scribes of Qumran and Nag Hammadi
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4632-1537-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten

Reihe: Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought

Questioning the scholarly assumptions regarding the “heretical” Nag Hammadi Library and the “apocalyptic” Dead Sea Scrolls, Fairen argues that they were not diametrically opposed, but represent a scribal reconfiguration of an Enochic worldview as a critique of foreign rule.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fairen, Glen J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Preface (page 7)
- Acknowledgments (page 9)
- Abbreviations (page 11)
- 2.1 Introduction (page 17)
- 2.2 The sui generis Prophets, sans pareil Jesus, and Apocalyptic Pre-WWI (page 21)
- 2.3 Rudolph Bultmann and Apocalyptic Post-WWI (page 26)
- 2.4 Apocalypse How? (page 29)
- 2.5 Foreign Politics and the Egyptian Apocalypses (page 38)
- 2.6 Hellenistic Syncretism and the Fourth Sibylline Oracle (page 45)
- 2.7 Genre-ness and Zand-i Vohuman Yasn—the Centre Cannot Hold (page 48)
- 3.1 Introduction (page 57)
- 3.2 Apocalyptic-ness of the Dead Sea Scrolls (page 62)
- 3.3 Let’s Talk About Sects—the Essenes and Sadducees (page 64)
- A) Essenes (page 65)
- B) Sadducees (page 68)
- 3.4 The Judeo-Christianisation of the Scrolls (page 70)
- 3.5 The Yahad and the Crucible of Apocalypticism (page 77)
- 4.1 Introduction (page 81)
- 4.2 Irenaeus and the Construction of Heresy (page 84)
- 4.3 Adolph von Harnack and the Construction of Hellenism (page 86)
- 4.4 History of Religions School and the Construction of Orientalism (page 90)
- 4.5 Hans Jonas and the Construction of the Gnostic Religion (page 93)
- 4.6 Elaine Pagels and the Inversion of the Gnostic Religion (page 95)
- 4.7 Alastair Logan and the Gnostic Cult (page 98)
- 4.8 The Scholarly Investment in Keeping Gnosticism as “Other” (page 105)
- 5.1 Introduction (page 107)
- 5.2 Variety is the Spice of Heresy (page 110)
- 5.3 The Nag Hammadi’s “Anti-Canons” (page 113)
- A) “History of Revelation” Arrangement (page 113)
- B) Anti-canonical Format (page 114)
- 5.4 The Syncretism of the Nag Hammadi Library (page 117)
- 5.5 Thomas, John and Dualism (page 119)
- A) Thomas and John: Material / Spirit Split (page 121)
- B) Thomas and John: Gnosis (page 122)
- C) Thomas and John: Docetic Christology and the Gnostic Redeemer Myth (page 124)
- D) Thomas and John: Demiurgical speculation (page 128)
- 5.6 The Orthodoxy of Thomas and the Gnosticism of John (page 129)
- 6.1. Introduction (page 135)
- 6.2 Prophets, Scribes and “Legitimate” Apocalypticism (page 141)
- 6.3 The Scribal Class of the Ancient Near and Middle East (page 148)
- 6.4 Scribal Apocalypticism and the Book of Watchers (page 151)
- 6.5 The Book of Watchers within the Dead Sea Scrolls (page 156)
- 6.6 Gnosticism and the Disenfranchisement of the Scribes (page 161)
- 6.7 The Book of Watchers within the Nag Hammadi Library. (page 164)
- Bibliography (page 183)
- Ancient Sources (page 183)
- Modern Sources (page 183)
- Index of Subjects (page 195)
- Index of Names (page 199)
- Index of Ancient Texts (page 201)