The Epistle to Rheginos: A Valentinian Letter on the Resurrection

Introduction, translation, analysis and exposition by Malcolm Lee Peel;

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ISBN 10: 0664208770 ISBN 13: 9780664208776

Published by Westminster Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1969

Language: English

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xv, 208 pp. The New Testament Library. Dustjacket. LCC: 7089686 Very good condition; lightly faded.

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The Epistle to Rheginos: A Valentinian Letter on the Resurrection

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Westminster Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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1969

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English

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0664208770

ISBN 13

9780664208776

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Hardcover

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s/t: Introduction, Translation, Analysis & Exposition
Based on the author's dissertation at Yale.
Dr Peel offers a full commentary on the Epistle. He discusses its place in the Nag Hammadi Library, the nature of its eschatology & its authorship. He has also made a new translation, with an analysis of the argument of the Epistle with full exegetical & philological notes.
The didactic letter to Rheginos, aka the Treatise on the Resurrection, is the 4th text in the Jung Codex. In the New Testament a warning can be found against the gnostic Christians, who believed that their 'resurrection' had happened & was a spiritual reality (2Timothy 2:16ff). This gnostic idea about the possibility of becoming conscious of the eternal spiritual life was indeed expressed in the Treatise on the Resurrection & in a number of other writings from Nag Hammadi. It's no illusion. It's truth. It's more suitable to say, then, that the world is an illusion, rather than the resurrection which came into being thru our Lord & Saviour, Jesus Christ.

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