Valentinian Christianity

Texts and Translations

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2020
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29746-3 (ISBN)

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Valentinus, an Egyptian Christian who traveled to Rome to teach his unique brand of theology, and his followers, the Valentinians, formed one of the largest and most influential sects of Christianity in the second and third centuries. But by the fourth century, their writings had all but disappeared suddenly and mysteriously from the historical record, as the newly consolidated imperial Christian Church condemned as heretical all forms of what has come to be known as Gnosticism. Only in 1945 were their extensive original works finally rediscovered, and the resurrected “Gnostic Gospels” soon rooted themselves in both the scholarly and popular imagination.

Valentinian Christianity: Texts and Translations brings together for the first time all the extant texts composed by Valentinus and his followers. With accessible introductions and fresh translations based on new transcriptions of the original Greek and Coptic manuscripts on facing pages, Geoffrey S. Smith provides an illuminating, balanced overview of Valentinian Christianity and its formative place in Christian history.

Geoffrey S. Smith is Assistant Professor of Biblical Greek and Christian Origins and Fellow of the Nease Endowment in the Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Guilt By Association: Heresy Catalogues in Early Christianity.

Contents

Introduction: Valentinus and the Valentinian Tradition

Greek Texts
I. Fragments of Valentinus
II. Ptolemy’s Letter to Flora
III. Fragments of Heracleon
IV. Excerpts of Theodotus
V. Anonymous Commentary on the Prologue of John
VI. Anonymous Letter
VII. Anonymous Commentary on Valentinus’s “Summer Harvest”

Coptic Texts
VIII. Gospel of Truth
IX. Treatise on the Resurrection
X. Tripartite Tractate
XI. Gospel of Philip
XII. Valentinian Exposition

Inscription
XIII. Flavia Sophe

Bibliographies
Indices

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2020
Übersetzer	Geoffrey S. Smith
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	0-520-29746-6 / 0520297466
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29746-3 / 9780520297463
Zustand	Neuware