Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Genesis Traditions in Conflict?: the Use of Some Exegetical Traditions in the Trimorphic Protennoia and the Johannine Prologue

Genesis Traditions in Conflict?: the Use of Some Exegetical Traditions in the Trimorphic... GENESIS TRADITIONS IN CONFLICT?: THE USE OF SOME EXEGETICAL TRADITIONS IN THE TRIMORPHIC PROTENNOIA AND THE JOHANNINE PROLOGUE BY NICOLA FRANCES DENZEY Introduction Over twenty years ago, in 1978, a renowned panel of scholars of Gnosticism convened at Yale to discuss, among other topics, the literary relationship between a very well known text and a rather obscure one: the prologue from the Gospel of John, and a revelatory discourse from the cache of texts discovered near Nag Hammadi in 1945, the Trimorphic Protennoia. The topic had already been broached; as early as 1973, Gesine Schenke and the Berliner Arheitskreis fÜr die koptisch-gnostischen Schriften were the first scholars of Gnosticism on the international scene to note a curious phenomenon: the initially alien Trimorphic Protennoia-the sole extant version of an ancient, undated, unascribed Coptic text which Schenke had trans- lated into German for her doctoral dissertation expanded upon an old mythic pattern, of which the Johannine Prologue formed the most reassur- ingly familiar example: the threefold salvific descent of God's co-agent into the world to redeem those who were able to recognize their divine origins.' ' The Trimorphic Protennoia is the sole extant treatise from the highly damaged NHC Codex http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vigiliae Christianae Brill

Genesis Traditions in Conflict?: the Use of Some Exegetical Traditions in the Trimorphic Protennoia and the Johannine Prologue

Denzey, Nicola Frances
Vigiliae Christianae , Volume 55 (1): 20 – Jan 1, 2001
Download PDF
25 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/genesis-traditions-in-conflict-the-use-of-some-exegetical-traditions-F9O3vVi7tc

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2001 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0042-6032
eISSN
1570-0720
DOI
10.1163/157007201X00368
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

GENESIS TRADITIONS IN CONFLICT?: THE USE OF SOME EXEGETICAL TRADITIONS IN THE TRIMORPHIC PROTENNOIA AND THE JOHANNINE PROLOGUE BY NICOLA FRANCES DENZEY Introduction Over twenty years ago, in 1978, a renowned panel of scholars of Gnosticism convened at Yale to discuss, among other topics, the literary relationship between a very well known text and a rather obscure one: the prologue from the Gospel of John, and a revelatory discourse from the cache of texts discovered near Nag Hammadi in 1945, the Trimorphic Protennoia. The topic had already been broached; as early as 1973, Gesine Schenke and the Berliner Arheitskreis fÜr die koptisch-gnostischen Schriften were the first scholars of Gnosticism on the international scene to note a curious phenomenon: the initially alien Trimorphic Protennoia-the sole extant version of an ancient, undated, unascribed Coptic text which Schenke had trans- lated into German for her doctoral dissertation expanded upon an old mythic pattern, of which the Johannine Prologue formed the most reassur- ingly familiar example: the threefold salvific descent of God's co-agent into the world to redeem those who were able to recognize their divine origins.' ' The Trimorphic Protennoia is the sole extant treatise from the highly damaged NHC Codex

Journal

Vigiliae Christianae – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2001

There are no references for this article.