Critical Reflections on the Odes of Solomon: Literary Setting, Textual Studies, Gnosticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls & the Gospel of John (Jsp Supplement Series, 22)

Charlesworth, James H.

ISBN 10: 1850756600 / ISBN 13: 9781850756606

Published by Sheffield Academic Pr, 1998

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• Title: Critical Reflections on the Odes of Solomon: Literary Setting, Textual Studies, Gnosticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls & the Gospel of John (Jsp Supplement Series, 22)
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Pr
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1850756600
• ISBN 13: 9781850756606
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

The Odes of Solomon is recognized as the earliest Christian hymnbook. Questions, however, abound. Are the Odes essentially Jewish, Jewish-Christian, gnostic, or simply Christian? There is wide agreement that the Odes are related in some way to the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gospel of John. Charlesworth argues that the Odes were composed in an early form of Aramaic-Syriac and, like the Psalter, in poetic parallelism. Pointing to parallels with the Thanksgiving Hymns and other Qumran texts, he concludes that the Odist had probably been an Essene before he became a Christian, a member of the Johannine community.