The Crucified Book: Sacred Writing in the Age of Valentinus

Author:   Anne Starr Kreps
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN:  

9780812253870


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   29 March 2022
Format:   Hardback
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""In The Crucified Book, Anne Kreps shows how the Gospel of Truth, a second-century text associated with the Christian Platonist Valentinus, and its ideas about the nature of authoritative writing engaged with Greco-Roman culture and cohered with Jewish and Christian ideas about books in antiquity""--

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Author:   Anne Starr Kreps
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint:   University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN:  

9780812253870


ISBN 10:   0812253876
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   29 March 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Anne Starr Kreps presents an important and novel thesis about a path not taken in the history of Christian scripture as a canon and as a concept. This is a captivating, bold, unusually readable, and highly significant work of scholarship.-- Eva Mroczek, University of California, Davis


Anne Starr Kreps presents an important and novel thesis about a path not taken in the history of Christian scripture as a canon and as a concept. This is a captivating, bold, unusually readable, and highly significant work of scholarship. -Eva Mroczek, University of California, Davis


Anne Starr Kreps presents an important and novel thesis about a path not taken in the history of Christian scripture as a canon and as a concept. This is a captivating, bold, unusually readable, and highly significant work of scholarship.--Eva Mroczek, University of California, Davis


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Anne Starr Kreps is Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Cruz.

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