Hellenization Revisited: Shaping a Christian Response within the Greco-Roman World (1994 Helleman), edited volume

Hellenization Revisited: Shaping a Christian Response within the Greco-Roman World (1994) is a volume edited by Wendy E. Helleman.

Editions and translations

Published in Lanham: University Press of America, 1994.

Table of contents

• Cosmic and meta-cosmic theology in Greek philosophy and Gnosticism / Abraham P. Bos
• Aristotle and the Jewish God (Response to A.P. Bos) / William E. Arnal
• Gnosticism and early Christianity / Edwin M. Yamauchi
• Yamauchi and pre-Christian Gnosticism (Response to E.M. Yamauchi) / Michel Desjardins
• Adolf von Harnack and the concept of Hellenization / William V. Rowe
• Alexandria or Athens as the essence of Hellenization: a historian responds to a philosopher / Barry W. Henaut
• Creatio ex nihilo in Philo / Albert M. Wolters
• Mastery of the passions: Philo, 4 Maccabees and the earliest Christianity / David C. Aune
• Voice of the serpent: Philo's Epicureanism / A. Peter Booth
• Plight of woman: Philo's blind spot? / Dorothy Sly
• "Praeparatio evangelica" and "spoliatio" motifs as patterns of Hellenistic Judaism in Philo of Alexandria / Daniel N. Jastram
• Muddying the water: metaphors for exegesis / John H. Corbett
• Harnack, Marcion and the argument of antiquity / Daniel H. Williams
• Acts of John: the gnostic transformation of a Christian community / Paul G. Schneider
• Trimorphic Protennoia and the wisdom tradition / Rosemary Halford
• Gnosis, theology and historical method / Schuyler Brown
• Gnosticism and the classical tradition / Scott C. Carroll
• Judaism and Gnosticism / Michel Desjardins
• Nomos empsychos in Philo and Clement of Alexandria / John Martens
• Gnosticism as heresy: the response of Irenaeus / Terrance Tiessen
• Tertullian on Athens and Jerusalem / Wendy E. Helleman
• "Spoils from Egypt," between Jews and Gnostics / Lawrence E. Frizzell
• Clement of Alexandria: instructions on how women should live / M. Eleanor Irwin
• Symbol and science in early Christian gnosis / Padraig O'Cleirigh

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