LEADER 03887nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910454054103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-07333-8 010 $a9786612073335 010 $a3-11-173133-2 010 $a3-11-021214-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110212143 035 $a(CKB)1000000000724274 035 $a(EBL)429294 035 $a(OCoLC)476275983 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000116532 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11128820 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116532 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10036201 035 $a(PQKB)11365397 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC429294 035 $a(DE-B1597)32700 035 $a(OCoLC)979583999 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110212143 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL429294 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10282621 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL207333 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000724274 100 $a20090522d2007 uy 0 101 0 $ager 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBy the same word$b[electronic resource] $ecreation and salvation in Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity /$fRonald Cox 210 $aBerlin $cW. de Gruyter$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (408 p.) 225 0 $aBeihefte zur zeitschrift fnr die neutestamentliche wissenschaft und die kunde der a?teren kirche ;$v145 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-019342-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tChapter One. Introduction -- $tChapter Two. Middle Platonic Intermediary Doctrine -- $tChapter Three. Salvation as the Fulfillment of Creation: The Roles of the Divine Intermediary in Hellenistic Judaism -- $tChapter Four. Salvation as the Reparation of Creation: The Roles of the Divine Intermediary in New Testament Christology -- $tChapter Five. Salvation as the Undoing of Creation: The Roles of the Divine Intermediary in "Gnosticism" -- $tChapter Six. Conclusion -- $t Backmatter 330 $aMiddle Platonism explained how a transcendent principle could relate to the material world by positing an intermediary, modeled after the Stoic active cause, that mediated the supreme principle's influence to the world while preserving its transcendence. Having similar concerns as Middle Platonism, Hellenistic Jewish sapientialism, early Christianity, and Gnosticism appropriated this intermediary doctrine as a means for understanding their relationship to God and to the cosmos. However, these traditions vary in their adaptation of this teaching due to their distinctive understanding of creation and humanity's place therein. The Jewish writings of Philo of Alexandria and Wisdom of Solomon espouse a holistic ontology, combining a Platonic appreciation for noetic reality with an ultimately positive view of creation and its place in human fulfillment. The early Christians texts of 1 Cor 8:6, Col 1:15-20, Heb 1:2-3, and the prologue of John provide an eschatological twist to this ontology when the intermediary figure finds final expression in Jesus Christ. Contrarily, Poimandres (CH 1) and the Apocryphon of John, both associated with the traditional rubric "Gnosticism", draw from Platonism to describe how creation is antithetical to human nature and its transcendent source. 410 0$aBeihefte zur Zeitschrift fu?r die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der a?lteren Kirche 606 $aCreation 606 $aSalvation 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCreation. 615 0$aSalvation. 676 $a220.6 676 $a261.26 686 $aBC 7415$2rvk 700 $aCox$b Ronald$0936605 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454054103321 996 $aBy the same word$92459835 997 $aUNINA