Poetics of the gnostic universe : narrative and cosmology in the Apocryphon of John /

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This volume is both an essay in Gnostic poetics and a study in the history of early Christian appropriation of ancient philosophy. The object of study is the cosmological model of the Apocryphon of John, a first-hand and fully narrated version of the Gnostic myth. The author examines its target text...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pleše, Zlatko
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Colección:Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 52.
Temas:
Apocryphon of John > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Apocryphe de Jean > Critique, interprétation, etc.
Apocryphon of John
Poetics.
Poétique.
RELIGION > Biblical Studies.
Poetics
Gnosticisme.
Apokryphon Johannis (apocrief)
Kosmologie.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONENARRATIVE AND COMPOSITION
  • The Frame Narrative: Authorship and Narrative Voices
  • Dramatis Personae
  • John8217;s Failed Inventio
  • John8217;s Vision: Form and Content
  • The Revelatory Monologue: Narrative Structure, Plot, Voices
  • 8216;Dispositio8217;: What Is8212;What Has Come to Be8212;What Will Come to Pass
  • Plot: The Logic of the Savior8217;s Narrative
  • Dissonant Voices, Consonant Models: Plato, Moses, and Dame Wisdom
  • CHAPTER TWOTHE REALM OF BEING
  • Agnostos Theos
  • Praising Oneness: A Literary Analysis
  • The God without Qualities
  • Kataphasis
  • Formation of the Spiritual Realm
  • The Language of Procession in the Apocryphon of John
  • CHAPTER THREETHE REALM OF BECOMING
  • Sophia 8220;Our Sister8221; (Prov 7:4)
  • Sophia the Lowest Aeon
  • Sophia8217;s Miscarriage
  • Sophia8217;s Motivation: The Soul 8220;in Travail of Birth8221;
  • Cosmogony, Part One: The 8216;Gnostic8217; Demiurge
  • Ialdabaoth in the Luminous Cloud
  • Ialdabaoth the Villain
  • Ialdabaoth the Demiurge
  • 8220;Let Us Make a Man8221;
  • Ialdabaoth the Jealous God
  • Cosmogony, Part Two: Sophia8217;s Repentance
  • Narrative Function of the Episode
  • Other 8216;Gnostic8217; Interpretations of Genesis 1:2b
  • Sophia8217;s Movement and Wisdom Literature
  • Temporal Coordinates of Sophia8217;s Movement: Sophia, Ialdabaoth8217;s Assistant
  • Spatial Coordinates of Sophia8217;s Movement: Metanoia, Its Meaning and Function
  • 8220;What Will Come to Pass8221;8212;Diakrisis, or Final Separation
  • CONCLUSION
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX LOCORUM
  • INDEX NOMINUM ET RERUM POTIORUM.

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