Paul and Hellenism
Our rough guess is there are 55,500 words in this book.
At a pace averaging 250 words per minute, this book will take 3 hours and 42 minutes to read. With a half hour per day, this will take 8 days to read.
How long will it take you?
This book will take an estimated to read at a reading speed averaging words per minute. With 30 minutes per day, this will take to read.
Enter your reading speedYou can take one of our WPM reading speed tests to find your reading speed.
Create a free account to track your reading progress, build your reading list, and set reading goals.
We earn a commission on purchases
Word Count
55,500 words, Guess
Page Count
222 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1883889M
- ISBN-100334024854
- OCLC Control Number22239884
- OCLC Control Numberpaulhellenism0000macc
- Library of Congress Control Number90044765
and 2 more
- Goodreads5125760
- LibraryThing950563
Classifications
- DDC225.9/2
- LCCBS2506 .M29 1991
Description
Seeks the origins of later Christian anti-Judaism in Gnosticism and Pauline theology. Describes Gnostic anti-Judaism as directed primarily against the Jewish God and his law, rather than against the Jewish people who are their blind servants. Judaism for the Gnostics is more contemptible than dangerous, since its power is only in this world, to which the Gnostics attached no importance. Suggests that their hostility was aroused by Judaism's claim to equate its God with the higher God of Hellenistic thought. Paul took over much of the Gnostic two-power scheme, including the view of the Jews as blind servants of the Law. Argues that his own anti-Judaism did not go beyond that of the Gnostics. But in seeing the Crucifixion as central to salvation, and in singling out the Jews for a special role in salvation history, he added to the Gnostic two-power theology elements that later took shape as the Christian view of the Jews as Christ-killers and instruments of Satan.
Subjects
Topics
People
Similar Books
Christianity as mystical fact: and the mysteries of antiquity
by Dr. Rudolf Steiner.
Myths, dreams, and mysteries: the encounter between contemporary faiths and archaic realities
translated by Philip Mairet.
Hellenistic mystery-religions: their basic ideas and significance
by Richard Reitzenstein ; translated by John E. Steely.
The Gnostic problem: a study of the relations between Hellenistic Judaism and the Gnostic heresy.
R. McL Wilson
Reader Reviews
No reviews yet for this book.
Be the first to share your thoughts!