Before Valentinus

• Verfasst von: Thomassen, Einar [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Before Valentinus
• Titelzusatz: the Gnostics of Irenaeus
• Verf.angabe: by Einar Thomassen
• Verlagsort: Leiden ; Boston
• Verlag: Brill
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: IX, 202 Seiten
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; volume 106
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-90-04-67788-3
• Schlagwörter: (s)Gnosis / (s)Literatur / (s)Rezeption / (t)Irenaeus <Lugdunensis> / Adversus haereses
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Thomassen, Einar: Before Valentinus. - Leiden : Brill, [2023]
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Thomassen, Einar, 1951 - : Before Valentinus. - Leiden : Brill, 2023. - 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 202 Seiten)
• K10plus-PPN: 1851743588

Abstract

"This book offers the first detailed commentary on the Gnostic treatises reported by Irenaeus in Adversus Haereses 1.29-30. It is argued that these texts represent the earliest tangible layer of the Gnostic literary tradition and served as sources for the Apocryphon of John and other later works. They also formed the starting point for Valentinus and his followers, who sought to reconcile the ideas of the Gnostics with apostolic Christianity. The book also shows that Irenaeus and later heresiologists referred to "the Gnostics" as a specific group among the great mass of heretics"--