The Use of Scripture in the Apocryphon of John: A Diachronic Analysis of the Variant Versions

by David Creech

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David Creech explores at length the Apocryphon of John's ambivalent treatment of the Jewish and Christian scriptures. Although Moses is explicitly corrected at five points in the text, Genesis' account of creation is nonetheless the basis for the Apocryphon's cosmogony and anthropogony. Its uneven treatment of the biblical text is the result of a dispute between the authors of the Apocryphon and other early Catholics. At the earliest stage of the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:3161529839

ISBN13:9783161529832

Release Date:July 2017

Publisher:Mohr Siebeck

Length:148 Pages

Weight:0.97 lbs.

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