Title: Nag Hammadi, gnosticism & early Christianity /
Authors: Attridge, Harold W.; Hedrick, Charles W.; Hodgson, Robert 1943-; MacRae, George W.; Koester, Helmut, 1926-
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Nag Hammadi codices Congresses.; Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Congresses.; Church history Congresses.; Gnostic literature Relation to the New Testament Congresses.; Gnosticism Congresses; Christianity Origin Congresses.; Christianity and other religions Roman Congresses.; Rome Religion Congresses.
Contents: The problem of "Jewish Gnostic" literature / Birger A. Pearson -- The riddle of the thunder (NHC VI, 2) : the function of paradox in a gnostic text from Nag Hammadi / Bentley Layton -- Sethian gnosticism : a literary history / John D. Turner -- Gnosticism and the church of John's Gospel / George W. MacRae -- Gnostic sayings and controversy traditions in John 8:12-59 / Helmut Koester -- The function and background of the beloved disciple in the Gospel of John / Hans-Martin Schenke -- On bridging the gulf from Q to the Gospel of Thomas (or vice versa) / James M. Robinson -- The use of early Christian literature as evidence for inner diversity and conflict / Frederik Wisse -- Gnostic and orthodox disciples in the second and third centuries / Douglas M. Parrott -- Ordering the cosmos : Irenaeus and the gnostics / Pheme Perkins -- The gospel of truth as an exoteric text / Harold W. Attridge -- Exegesis and exposition of the Genesis creation accounts in selected texts from Nag Hammadi / Elaine H. Pagels -- With Walter Bauer on the Tigris : Encratite orthodoxy and Litertine heresy in Syro-Mesopotamian Christianity / Stephen Gero.