Poetics of the Gnostic universe : narrative and cosmology in the Apocryphon of John / by Zlatko Plese.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pleše, Zlatko.

Series:

Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 52.

Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, 0929-2470 ; v. 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apocryphon of John--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Apocryphon of John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is both an essay in Gnostic poetics and a study in the history of early Christian appropriation of ancient philosophy. The object of study is the cosmological model of the Apocryphon of John , a first-hand and fully narrated version of the Gnostic myth. The author examines his target text against a complex background of religious and philosophical systems, literary theories, and rhetorical techniques of the period, and argues that the world model of the Apocryphon of John is inseparable from the epistemological, theological, and aesthetic debates within contemporary Platonism. Poetics of the Gnostic Universe also discusses the composition and narrative logic of the Apocryphon of John , explores its revisionist attitude towards various literary models (Plato’s Timaeus , Wisdom literature, Genesis), and analyzes its peculiar discursive strategy of conjoining seemingly disconnected symbolic ‘codes’ while describing the derivation of a multi-layered universe from a single transcendent source.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Z. Pleše

Introduction / Z. Pleše

Chapter One. Narrative And Composition / Z. Pleše

Chapter Two. The Realm Of Being / Z. Pleše

Chapter Three. The Realm Of Becoming / Z. Pleše

Conclusion / Z. Pleše

Bibliography / Z. Pleše

Index Locorum / Z. Pleše

Index Nominum Et Rerum Potiorum / Z. Pleše

Nag Hammadi And Manichaean Studies / Z. Pleše.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-38433-X

9786611384333

90-474-0402-5

OCLC:

669127127

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004116740.i-331 DOI