Gnùsis, Mageia, and The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit

In: The Wisdom of Egypt
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Marvin Meyer
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503–517
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https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047407676_029

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The Wisdom of Egypt

Jewish, Early Christian, and Gnostic Essays in Honour of Gerard P. Luttikhuizen

Series:  Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, Volume: 59
Cover The Wisdom of Egypt
E-Book ISBN:
9789047407676
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2005
Preliminary Material
The Disgrace of Egypt: Joshua 5.9A and its Context
La Genèse D’Alexandrie, Les Rabbins et Qumrân
The Birth of Moses in Egypt According to the Book of Jubilees (Jub 47.1-9)
Hearing the Story of Moses in Ptolemaic egypt: Artapanus Accommodates the Tradition
Egypt as the Setting for Joseph and Aseneth: Accidental or Deliberate?
The Wisdom of Solomon and the Gnostic Sophia
Cleopatra in Josephus: From herod’s Rival to the Wise Ruler’s Opposite
‘The God Who Drowned the King of Egypt’: A Short Note on an Exorcistic Formula
‘Out of Egypt I Have Called My Son’: Some Observations on the Quotation from Hosea 11.1 in Matthew 2.15
‘And Moses was Instructed in all the Wisdom of the Egyptians’ (Acts 7.22)
‘Wrath will Drip in the Plains of Macedonia’: Expectations of Nero’s Return in the Egyptian Sibylline Oracles (Book 5), 2 Thessalonians, and Ancient Historical Writings
Looking at the Condemning Heart of 1 John 3.18-20 Through the Eyes of an Ancient Egyptian
The Egyptian Background of the ‘Ointment’ Prayer in the Eucharistic Rite of the Didache (10.8).
The Letter of Barnabas in Early Second-Century Egypt
Paul’s Rapture to Paradise in Early Christian Literature
The Sphinx: Sculpture as a Theological Symbol in Plutarch and Clement of Alexandria
Foolish Egyptians: Apion and Anoubion in the Pseudo-Clementines
Potamiaena: Some Observations About Martyrdom and Gender in Ancient Alexandria
‘Mulier est Instrumentum Diaboli’: Women and the Desert Fathers
Le Gnosticisme Alexandrin aux Premiers Temps du Christianisme
The Gospel of Thomas and the Historical Jesus: The Case of Eschatology
Basilides of Alexandria: Matthias (Matthew) and Aristotle as the Sources of Inspiration for His Gnostic Theology in Hippolytus’ Refutatio
Early Christian Apocrypha and the Secret Books of Ancient Egypt
Baraies on Mani’s Rapture, Paul, and the Antediluvian Apostles
Devolution and Recollection, Deficiency and Perfection: Human Degradation and the Recovery of the Primal Condition According to Some Early Christian Texts
Reisewege der Apostel in den Acta Petri aus Nag Hammadi
The Identity of Lithargoel in the Acts of Peter and the Twelve
Fate, Magic and Astrology in Pistis Sophia, chaps 15-21
Bibliography of Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
List of Contributors
Index of Subjects and Names
Index of Ancient Authors and Writings
Index of Hebrew, Greek, and Coptic Words
Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

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