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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Rethinking Earliest Christianity in Alexandria -- Bauer and His Critics -- Eusebius -- Theses and Roadmap -- The Nature of the Evidence -- Part I Beginnings -- 1 Foreshadowings: Philo of Alexandria -- Introduction -- Life and Work -- Select Teachings -- Philonic Practice -- Conclusion -- 2 The Jesus Movement Enters Alexandria -- Introduction -- The Arrival of Jesus Movement(s) in Alexandria |
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3 Apollos: The Earliest Known Alexandrian Follower of Jesu -- Introduction -- Name and Origins -- Apollos in 1 Corinthians -- Results -- Apollos in Acts -- Apollos's Significance for Alexandria -- 4 Factors Motivating Gentile Recruitment -- Introduction -- The First Pogrom -- The Massacre in 66 ce -- The Diaspora Revolt -- Conclusion -- 5 Crafting a Christian Identity: Barnabas and the Two Peters -- Introduction -- The epistle of barnabas -- Provenance -- Date and Literary Form -- Social History -- The Preaching of Peter -- Provenance -- Date -- Treatment of the Jews -- Social History |
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The apocalypse of peter -- Provenance -- Date -- Social History -- Conclusion -- Part II Early Christian Teachers and Movements in Alexandria -- 6 The Earliest Alexandrian Theologians: Basilides, Carpocrates, and Prodicus -- Introduction -- Relation to Judaism -- The Judean Lord -- Apostolic Authority -- The Witness of Celsus -- Ritual Distinctiveness -- Cultural Accommodation -- Strangers and Foreigners -- Martyrdom -- Transmigration -- Conclusion -- 7 Eugnostus and the Wisdom of Jesus Christ -- Introduction -- God and the God-Human -- Provenance -- Date -- Reception -- Conclusion |
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8 Julius Cassianus and Alexandrian Ascetic Culture -- Introduction -- Cassianus's Teaching -- The sentences of sextus -- The Testimony of Truth -- The gospel according to the egyptians -- The gospel of thomas -- Exegesis of the soul -- Conclusion -- 9 Valentinian and Marcionite Currents -- Introduction -- Valentinian Teaching in the Excerpts -- Alexandrian Tendencies -- Apelles -- Conclusion -- 10 The Naassene Preacher -- Introduction -- Literary Form -- Author -- Provenance -- Date -- Individual or Group? -- Ritual Practice -- Scriptural Practice -- Cosmopolitan Outlook -- View of God |
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Humanity -- View of Jesus -- Ethics and Salvation -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: The "Great Church" and the Many Schools of Alexandria -- Introduction -- The Great Church -- The Many Schools -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Utilizing the Nag Hammadi codices and early Christian writings, this book explores the earliest development of Christianity in Alexandria |
| Notes |
Machine-generated record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009449571 |
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1009449575 |
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