num_pages: 181
description: The Odes of Solomon is recognized as the earliest Christian hymnbook. Questions, however, abound. Are the Odes essentially Jewish, Jewish-Christian, gnostic, or simply Christian? There is wide agreement that the Odes are related in some way to the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gospel of John. Charlesworth argues that the Odes were composed in an early form of Aramaic-Syriac and, like the Psalter, in poetic parallelism. Pointing to parallels with the Thanksgiving Hymns and other Qumran texts, he concludes that the Odist had probably been an Essene before he became a Christian, a member of the Johannine community.
language: English
title: Critical Reflections on the Odes of Solomon, Vol 1: Literary Setting, Textual Studies, Gnosticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gospel of John
titlecomplete: Critical Reflections on the Odes of Solomon, Vol 1: Literary Setting, Textual Studies, Gnosticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gospel of John
ratings_count: 3
publisher: UNKNO