No Longer Jews

by Smith, Carl B.

• ISBN13: 9781565639447
• ISBN10: 1565639448
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Hendrickson Pub

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	1	(6)
Definitions of Gnosticism and Theories of Gnostic Origins	7	(37)
Definitions of Gnosticism	7	(11)
Attempts at Definitions	8	(5)
Anticosmic Dualism: The Unique Feature of Gnosticism	13	(5)
Conclusion on Definitions	18	(1)
Theories of Gnostic Origins	18	(26)
Gnosticism as a Christian Heresy	19	(6)
Gnosticism as a Product of Iranian Dualism	25	(3)
Gnosticism as a Product of Platonic Philosophical Thought	28	(5)
Gnosticism as a Product of Hermeticism	33	(2)
Gnosticism as a Product of Pagan Religious Syncretism	35	(2)
Gnosticism as a Product of Jewish Speculation	37	(7)
Gnostic Origins: Jewish Social and Political Crises	44	(28)
The Hasmonean Period---Douglas Parrott	49	(1)
First-Century Palestine and Syria---Kurt Rudolph	50	(3)
The First Jewish Revolt (66--74 C.E.)---Robert M. Grant	53	(5)
The Period between the Jewish Revolts (70--135 C.E.)---Nils Dahl	58	(1)
The Bar Kokhba Revolt (132--135 C.E.)---Edwin Yamauchi, Stephen G. Wilson, and Alan Segal	59	(5)
The Theory of Edwin Yamauchi	60	(1)
The Theory of Stephen G. Wilson	61	(1)
The Theory of Alan Segal	62	(2)
Focus toward Egypt---Birger A. Pearson and Henry A. Green	64	(6)
The Theory of Birger A. Pearson	65	(2)
The Theory of Henry A. Green	67	(3)
Concluding Thoughts	70	(2)
The Jewish Revolt under Trajan: A Historical Reconstruction and Its Implications	72	(41)
Historiography of the Revolt	73	(1)
Causes of the Jewish Revolt	74	(21)
Prehistory and Political Causes	75	(9)
Socioeconomic Causes	84	(2)
Religious Causes	86	(9)
Analysis and Reconstruction of the Revolt	95	(10)
Effects of the Revolt	105	(8)
Effects upon the Romans	105	(1)
Effects upon the Native Populations	106	(1)
Effects upon the Jewish Communities of Egypt	107	(4)
Effects upon the Christians	111	(2)
Chronological and Geographical Considerations for Gnostic Origins	113	(102)
The Chronology of ``Gnostic'' Teachers	120	(29)
General Statements on Gnostic Origins	125	(1)
Simon Magus of Samaria (fl. 40--65? C.E.)	126	(4)
Menander of Samaria (late 1st to early 2d C. C.E.)	130	(1)
Cerinthus of Asia Minor (late 1st to early 2d C. C.E.)	131	(3)
Carpocrates of Alexandria (Egypt; 120s C.E.) and Epiphanes	134	(2)
Saturninus of Antioch (Syria; 120s C.E.?)	136	(1)
Basilides of Alexandria (Egypt; 120--150s C.E.)	137	(5)
Later Gnostic Teachers	142	(4)
Observations and Conclusions	146	(3)
The Chronology of Polemical Works Related to Gnosticism	149	(66)
Early Christian Polemics and Gnosticism	151	(29)
Jewish Polemics and Gnosticism	180	(9)
Middle Platonism and Its Polemic against Gnosticism	189	(6)
Gnostic Polemics and Gnostic Origins	195	(20)
Sethian Gnosticism, the Geography of Heresy, and a Proposal for Gnostic Origins	215	(38)
Sethian Gnosticism---The Immovable Race	216	(12)
Geography Related to Sethian Gnosticism	223	(1)
Egyptian Seth and the Immovable Race of Seth	224	(4)
The Geography of the Gnostic ``Heresy''	228	(4)
Samaria	228	(1)
Syro-Palestine	229	(1)
Asia Minor	230	(1)
Egypt	231	(1)
The Religious Context of Egypt Prior to the Jewish Revolt of 115--117 C.E.---Judaism and Christianity	232	(12)
Judaism in Egypt Prior to the Jewish Revolt	232	(4)
Christianity in Egypt Prior to the Jewish Revolt	236	(8)
A Proposal of Gnostic Origins---``How It Might Have Happened''	244	(9)
Gnosticism's Rise among Alienated Jewish Intellectuals	245	(2)
Gnosticism's Rise from within Jewish Christianity	247	(1)
Platonic Converts to Judaism or Jewish Christianity	248	(1)
Summary of Proposals and Conclusion	249	(4)
Bibliography	253	(34)
Index of Modern Authors	287	(7)
Index of Subjects	294	(15)
Index of Ancient Sources	309