Title Two powers in heaven : early rabbinic reports about Christianity and Gnosticism / by Alan F. Segal

Published Leiden : Brill, 1977

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Description xxiv, 313 pages ; 25 cm Series Studies in Judaism in late antiquity ; v. 25 Studies in Judaism in late antiquity ; v. 25 Contents 1. Introduction -- Two powers in heaven: The history and importance of the problem -- 2. The early rabbinic evidence -- Conflicting appearances of God -- Aher, Metatron, Merkabah, and the angel of YHWH -- A controversy between Ishmaeil and Akiba -- Midrashic warnings against "two powers" -- Mishnaic warnings against unorthodox prayer -- "Many powers in heaven" and Miscellaneous reports -- How many powers created the world? -- Divine powers and angels -- Summary of Rabbinic findings -- 3. Philo -- Jewish Sectarian texts: Apocalypticism and mysticism ; New Testament Christianity -- The Church fathers -- Marcion -- Gnosticism Analysis Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Dualism (Religion) in rabbinical literature Gnosticism Heresies, Jewish Rabbinical literature History and criticism Notes Includes indexes Bibliography Bibliography: pages [268]-288 Subject Christianity. Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Dualism (Religion) in rabbinical literature. Dualism (Religion) -- Controversial literature -- History and criticism. Dualism (Religion) -- History and criticism. Gnosticism. Jewish heresies. Jewish heretics. Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism. LC no. 78315387 ISBN 9004054537

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