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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Gnostic Origins | |
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| The Search for Pre-Christian Gnosticism | |
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| Simon Magus | |
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| Jewish Syncretism | |
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| Gnostic Mythemes and Alienation | |
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| A Demonized World | |
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| Gnosticism and the Jewish Connection | |
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| A Samaritan Origin? | |
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| Linguistic Evidence for Palestinian Traditions | |
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| Enoch Traditions in Gnostic Mythology | |
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| Anti-Jewish Midrash | |
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| Christianizing Early Gnostic Traditions | |
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| Gnostic Influence and the New Testament | |
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| Variations on the Redeemer Figure | |
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| Gnostic Elements in the New Testament | |
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| Cultic Innovation and Mythology | |
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| Reconstructing Gnostic History | |
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| On the Margins of Judaism | |
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| Gnostic Teachers of the Second Century | |
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| Valentinians | |
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| Sethian Tradition History | |
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| Gnostic and New Testament Traditions | |
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| Jesus as Teacher of Wisdom: Sayings and Revelation | |
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| Gospel of Thomas and the Sayings Tradition | |
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| Dialogue of the Savior | |
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| Sayings in Gospel of Truth | |
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| Kingdom Parables and Gnosis | |
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| Recovering the Divine Image | |
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| Praxis in Gospel of Thomas | |
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| Gnosis and the Pauline Tradition | |
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| Pauline Opponents (Schmithals) | |
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| Gnostic Mythemes and Pauline Anthropology | |
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| Eschatology and Anthropology | |
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| The Divine Image | |
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| Redeemer Myths and New Testament Hymns | |
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| The Revealer Appears in the World | |
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| The Powers React | |
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| Christianizing the Gnostic Redeemer | |
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| The Revealer in Zostrianos | |
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| The Revealer in Gospel of the Egyptians | |
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| Jesus as Word | |
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| Wisdom and Myth in John's Prologue | |
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| A Gnostic Reading of John's Prologue | |
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| John's Prologue and Trimorphic Protennoia | |
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| The Word as Revealer | |
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| Discourses of the Revealer | |
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| Jesus Reveals God | |
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| Postresurrection Revelations | |
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| The Style of the Revelation Discourse | |
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| Johannine Discourse and the Sayings Tradition (Koester) | |
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| "I Am" Predications as Text and Riddle | |
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| Discourse and the Elect Community | |
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| Gnostic Christianity | |
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| Gnostic Identity: Conversion and Asceticism | |
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| Interpretation and Antinomianism | |
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| The Danger of the Demonic | |
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| A Call to Conversion | |
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| Salvation and Metaphor in Gospel of Truth | |
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| Conflict over Ascetic Practice | |
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| The Rhetoric of 1 John and Gospel of Truth | |
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| Women Disciples and Worshipers | |
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| Women in the Marcosian Sect | |
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| Women in Pauline Traditions | |
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| The Ambiguity of the Feminine | |
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| The Suffering of Wisdom | |
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| Repentance Displaces Wisdom | |
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| Christians: Gnostic and Orthodox | |
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| Gnostic Christian Writings | |
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| Irenaeus Against the Gnostics | |
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| Jesus' Disciples in Gnostic Sources | |
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| Christian Gnostics and Religious Pluralism | |
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| Christian Gnostics and the Gospel Canon | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Ancient Sources | |
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| Index of Modern Authors | |