In this version of the creation myth, the snake's advice to eat from the tree of knowledge is positive, the creator and his angels are demonic beasts whose names are named, and the true Godhead appear
This volume offers an approachable, fresh, comprehensive and up-to-date view of the second-century reception of the Fourth Gospel, in a situation where new understandings about various forms of early
How usefully do distinctly Stoic ideas illuminate the meaning of first- and second-century Christian texts? This book suggests that early Christians--the authors of New Testament and noncanonical wri