TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cox,Ronald
TI  - By the Same Word: Creation and Salvation in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity 
T2  - Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft ,
SN  - 9783110193428
AV  - BS680.C69 
U1  - 220.6261.26 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Cosmology
KW  - History
KW  - Creation in rabbinical literature
KW  - Creation
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Gnosticism
KW  - Jews
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Greek influences
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
KW  - Mediation between God and man
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Neoplatonism
KW  - Salvation
KW  - Wisdom literature
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Gnosis
KW  - Heilige Schriften
KW  - Juden /Alte Geschichte
KW  - Neues Testament
KW  - Platonismus
KW  - RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - New Testament
KW  - Philosophy (Middle Platonism)
N1  - Dissertation; Frontmatter --; Contents --; Chapter One. Introduction --; Chapter Two. Middle Platonic Intermediary Doctrine --; Chapter Three. Salvation as the Fulfillment of Creation: The Roles of the Divine Intermediary in Hellenistic Judaism --; Chapter Four. Salvation as the Reparation of Creation: The Roles of the Divine Intermediary in New Testament Christology --; Chapter Five. Salvation as the Undoing of Creation: The Roles of the Divine Intermediary in “Gnosticism” --; Chapter Six. Conclusion --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Middle 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212143
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110212143
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ER  -