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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Zlatko PlesePublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 52 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.672kg ISBN: 9789004116740ISBN 10: 9004116745 Pages: 332 Publication Date: 30 June 2006 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction ............................... Chapter One. Narrative and Composition The Frame Narrative Manuscript Witnesses Authorship and Narrative Voices Dramatis Personae John's Failed Inventio John's Vision: Form and Content The Revelatory Monologue: Narrative Structure, Plot, Voices Dispositio: What Is-What Has Come to Be-What Will Come to Pass Plot: The Logic of the Savior's Narrative Dissonant Voices, Consonant Models: Plato, Sophia, Moses ............................... Chapter Two. The Realm of Being Agnostos Theos Praising Oneness: A Literary Analysis The God without Qualities Kataphasis Formation of the Spiritual Realm The Language of Procession in the Apocryphon of John ............................... Chapter Three. The Realm of Becoming Sophia Our Sister (Prov 7:4) Sophia the Lowest Aeon Sophia's Miscarriage Sophia's Motivation: The Soul in Travail of Birth Cosmogony, Part One: The 'Gnostic' Demiurge Ialdabaoth in the Luminous Cloud Ialdabaoth the Villain Ialdabaoth the Demiurge Let Us Make a Man Ialdabaoth the Jealous God Cosmogony, Part Two: Sophia's Repentance Narrative Function of the Episode Other 'Gnostic' Interpretations of Genesis 1:2b Sophia's Movement and Wisdom Literature Temporal Coordinates of Sophia's Movement: Sophia, Ialdabaoth's Assistant Spatial Coordinates of Sophia's Movement: Metanoia, Its Meaning and Function What Will Come to Pass -Diakrisis, or Final Separation ............................... Conclusion Bibliography Index locorum potiorum Index nominum et rerumReviewsPle e's book is an impressive contribution to scholarship on the Apocryphon of John and on Gnosticism in general. Birger A. Pearson, University of California, Santa Barbara Author InformationZlatko Plese, Ph.D. (1996) in Classics, Yale University, is Associate Professor of Graeco-Roman Religion and Early Christianity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published on Plutarch, Middle Platonism, Gnosticism, Coptic literature, and early modern Latin historiography, and is currently working on a critical edition of the seventh volume of Shenoute's Discourses. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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