Title: Origen's References to Heracleon
Description: "The origins of Christian exegesis are obscured by ancient authors' lack of differentiation between verbatim quotations, summaries, explanatory paraphrases, and mere assertions. Carl Johan Berglund discerns what we can know of Heracleon's literary-critical Gospel commentary from Origen's presuppositions of Gnostic heresies."
Subjects: Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., Criticism, interpretation, History, Church history, Gnosticism, Primitive and early church, Bible, Commentary on the Gospel according to John (Origen)