The wisdom of Egypt : Jewish, early Christian, and gnostic essays in honour of Gerard P. Luttikhuizen / edited by Anthony Hilhorst and George H. van Kooten.
Publisher:
Brill,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
xii, 556 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Egypt--Religion. Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [537]-543) and indexes.
Contents:
The And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians (Acts 7.22) / Ton Hilhorst -- La Genèse d'Alexandrie, les Rabbins et Qumrân / Florentino García Martínez -- The birth of Moses in Egypt according to the Book of Jubilees (Jub 47.1-9) / Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten -- Hearing the story of Moses in Ptolemaic Egypt : Artapanus accommodates the tradition / Rob Kugler -- Egypt as the setting for Joseph and Aseneth : accidental or deliberate? / János Bolyki -- The wisdom of Solomon and the gnostic Sophia / Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte -- Cleopatra in Josephus : from Herod's rival to the wise ruler's opposite / Jan Willem van Henten -- The God who drowned the king of Egypt : a short note on an exorcistic formula / Pieter W. van der Horst -- Out of Egypt I have called my son : some observations on the quotation from Hosea 11.1 in Matthew 2.15 / Maarten J.J. Menken -- And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians (Acts 7.22) / Ton Hilhorst -- Mulier est instrumentum diaboli : women and the desert fathers / Monika Pesthy -- Looking at the condemning heart of 1 John 3.18-20 through the eyes of an ancient Egyptian / Herman te Velde -- The Egyptian background of the ointment prayer in the Eucharistic rite of the Didache (10.8) / Huub van de Sandt -- The letter of Barnabas in early second-century Egypt / Janni Loman -- Paul's rapture to paradise in early Christian literature / Riemer Roukema -- The Sphinx : sculpture as a theological symbol in Plutarch and Clement of Alexandria / John Herrmann and Annewies van den Hoek -- Foolish Egyptians : Apion and Anoubion in the Pseudo-Clementines / Jan N. Bremmer -- Potamiaena : some observations about martyrdom and gender in ancient Alexandria / Henk Bakker -- Mulier est instrumentum diaboli : women and the desert fathers / Monika Pesthy -- The Gnōsis, mageia, and The holy book of the great invisible spirit / Monika Pesthy -- The Gospel of Thomas and the historical Jesus: the case of eschatology / Albert L.A. Hogeterp -- Basilides of Alexandria : Matthias (Matthew) and Aristotle as the sources of inspiration for his gnostic theology in Hippolytus' Refutatio / Abraham P. Bos -- Early Christian apocrypha and the secret books of ancient Eygpt / Jacobus van Dijk -- Baraies on Mani's rapture, Paul, and the antediluvian apostles / Eibert Tigchelaar -- Devolution and recollection, deficiency and perfection: human degradation and the recovery of the primal condition according to some early Christian texts / F. Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Reisewege der apostel in den Acta Petri aus Nag Hammadi / Jürgen Tubach -- The identity of Lithargoel in the Acts of Peter and the Twelve / István Czachesz -- Gnōsis, mageia, and The holy book of the great invisible spirit / Marvin Meyer --ers / Monika Pesthy -- Fate, magic and astrology in Pistis Sophia, chaps 15-21 / Jacques van der Vliet.
Series:
Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums ; 0169-734X = Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums ; 59
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