Word and Glory

by Craig A. Evans

Word and Glory challenges recent claims that Gnosticism, especially as expressed in the Nag Hammadi tractate Trimorphic Protennoia, is the most natural and illuminating background for understanding the Prologue of the Fourth Gospel. Scriptural allusions and interpretive traditions suggest that Jewish wisdom tradition, mediated by the synagogue of the diaspora, lies behind the Prologue and the Fourth Gospel as a whole, not some form of late first-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850754489
• ISBN13: 9781850754480
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"