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1 online resource (x, 329 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies,
0929-2470 ;
v. 52
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Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 52.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONENARRATIVE AND COMPOSITION -- The Frame Narrative: Authorship and Narrative Voices -- Dramatis Personae -- John8217;s Failed Inventio -- John8217;s Vision: Form and Content -- The Revelatory Monologue: Narrative Structure, Plot, Voices -- 8216;Dispositio8217;: What Is8212;What Has Come to Be8212;What Will Come to Pass -- Plot: The Logic of the Savior8217;s Narrative -- Dissonant Voices, Consonant Models: Plato, Moses, and Dame Wisdom -- CHAPTER TWOTHE 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 THREETHE REALM OF BECOMING -- Sophia 8220;Our Sister8221; (Prov 7:4) -- Sophia the Lowest Aeon -- Sophia8217;s Miscarriage -- Sophia8217;s Motivation: The Soul 8220;in Travail of Birth8221; -- Cosmogony, Part One: The 8216;Gnostic8217; Demiurge -- Ialdabaoth in the Luminous Cloud -- Ialdabaoth the Villain -- Ialdabaoth the Demiurge -- 8220;Let Us Make a Man8221; -- Ialdabaoth the Jealous God -- Cosmogony, Part Two: Sophia8217;s Repentance -- Narrative Function of the Episode -- Other 8216;Gnostic8217; Interpretations of Genesis 1:2b -- Sophia8217;s Movement and Wisdom Literature -- Temporal Coordinates of Sophia8217;s Movement: Sophia, Ialdabaoth8217;s Assistant -- Spatial Coordinates of Sophia8217;s Movement: Metanoia, Its Meaning and Function -- 8220;What Will Come to Pass8221;8212;Diakrisis, or Final Separation -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX LOCORUM -- INDEX NOMINUM ET RERUM POTIORUM. |
| Summary |
This volume is both an essay in Gnostic poetics and a study in the history of early Christian appropriation of ancient philosophy. The object of study is the cosmological model of the Apocryphon of John, a first-hand and fully narrated version of the Gnostic myth. The author examines its target text against a complex background of religious and philosophical systems, literary theories, and rhetorical techniques of the period, and argues that the world model of the Apocryphon of John is inseparable from the epistemological, theological, and aesthetic debates within contemporary Platonism. "Poetics of the Gnostic Universe" also discusses the composition and narrative logic of the Apocryphon of John, explores its revisionist attitude towards various literary models (Plato's "Timaeus", "Wisdom" literature, "Genesis"), and analyzes its peculiar discursive strategy of conjoining seemingly disconnected symbolic 'codes' while describing the derivation of a multi-layered universe from a single transcendent source. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Apocryphon of John -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Apocryphon of John. |
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Apocryphon of John -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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Apocryphe de Jean -- Critique, interprétation, etc. |
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Apocryphon of John. |
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Poetics.
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Poetics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pleše, Zlatko. Poetics of the gnostic universe. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006 (DLC) 2005058214 |
| ISBN |
9789047404026 (ebook) |
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9047404025 (electronic book) |
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9789047404026 (electronic book) |
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128138433X |
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9781281384331 |
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9004116745 (alkaline paper) |
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9789004116740 |
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