Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

The Name of God and the Angel of the Lord : Samaritan and Jewish Concepts of Intermediation and the Origin of Gnosticism

Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiii, (1), 378pp. Bibliography and indices. With the errata slip laid in. Gray dust jacket, lettered in blue, spine lightly age toned, over blue cloth, gilt. Publisher's device on front cover and title page. A fine, as new copy.

"The main objective of [this] work is to demonstrate that the Gnostic concept... derives from Jewish religion... Scripture as well as functioning as a buffer between the good and transcendent God and the more or less evil material world, was also exemplary for certain representations of historical saviour figures, such as Jesus and Simon Magus, the Samaritan sect leader." (Jacket)

Part of the series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, Volume 36. Fine / near fine. Item #51593
ISBN: 3161447891

Price: $200.00

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