Wucherpfennig, Ansgar  Heracleon Philologus. Gnostische Johannesexegese im zweiten Jahrhundert
2002. XIV, 476 pages. WUNT I 142

ISBN 978-3-16-147658-7
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Ansgar Wucherpfennig

Heracleon Philologus

Gnostische Johannesexegese im zweiten Jahrhundert

[Heracleon Philologus. Gnostic Johannine Exegesis in the Second Century. By Ansgar Wucherpfennig]

Published in German.

This examination of Heracleon is based on the dispute which took place in the 20th century surrounding the gnostic character of the Gospel of John. According to sources in antiquity, Heracleon was a gnostic in the school of Valentinus. Between 150 and 170 AD he wrote a commentary on the Gospel of John. This commentary is the first scholarly investigation of a New Testament Scripture which uses the methodological framework of Hellenistic philology. The comparison between the Gospel of John and Heracleon’s commentary shows the themes which accompanied the rise of gnosticism in the second century.

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