No Longer Jews: The Search for Gnostic Origins. By Carl B. Smith II. Pp. xviii + 317. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004. isbn 1 56563 944 8. N.p
It is difficult to see how any headway is ever going to be made in this notorious black spot of Gnostic origins. Despite extensive research in this area since the publication of the Nag Hammadi texts in the 1970s we are no nearer solving the issue now than we were before their publication., The real...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 687-689 |
| Review of: | No longer Jews (Peabody, Mass : Hendrickson Publ., 2004) (Lane, Margaret)
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| Summary: | It is difficult to see how any headway is ever going to be made in this notorious black spot of Gnostic origins. Despite extensive research in this area since the publication of the Nag Hammadi texts in the 1970s we are no nearer solving the issue now than we were before their publication., The real problem that has dogged research is the ‘terminological inexactitude’ surrounding the use and meaning of the word ‘Gnosticism’. Smith recognizes the importance of resolving this as a preliminary issue to investigating its origins and he attempts to do this in the first part of chapter 1. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fll068 |