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The Newly Discovered Gnostic ‘Epistle to Rheginos’ on the Resurrection: I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

W. C. Van Unnik
Affiliation:
Professor of New Testament and Early Church History, University of Utrecht, Holland

Extract

It is my great privilege and pleasure to direct your attention to and to discuss with you in these lectures anew, hitherto completely unknown Christian text, probably dating from the second century, Gnostic in origin and contents, dealing with the great and important doctrine of the Resurrection.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1964

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page 141 note 1 Two lectures delivered at King's College, London, as special University Lectures of the University of London on 9 and 10 December 1963. Their publication in this Journal offers me a welcome opportunity to express once more my deep gratitude to the University of London both for its invitation and for the warm reception accorded by its Board of Studies in Theology.

page 142 note 1 Böhlig, A.Labib, P., Die koptisch-gnostische Schrift ohne Titel aus Codex II von Nag Hammadi, Berlin 1962Google Scholar; Böhlig, A.Labib, P., Koptisch-Gnostische Apokalypsen aus Codex V von Nag Hammadi, Halle-Wittenberg 1963Google Scholar; Krause, M.Labib, P., Die drei Versionen des Apohyphon des Johannes, Wiesbaden 1962Google Scholar; Malinine, M.Puech, H. C.Quispel, G.Till, W., De Resurrectione (Epistula ad Rheginum), Zürich-Stuttgart 1963Google Scholar (with the assistance of Dr. R. McL. Wilson and Dr. J. Zandee).

page 142 note 2 Burkitt, F. C., Church and Gnosis, Cambridge 1932Google Scholar.

page 142 note 3 Cf. Colpe, C.Haenchen, E.Kretschmar, G., ‘Gnosis’, in Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart 3, Tübingen 1958, Bd. II, 1648 ff.Google Scholar

page 143 note 1 Giet, S., Hermas et les Pasteurs, Paris 1963, 7Google Scholar; Grant, R. M., ‘The Fragments of the Greek Apologists and Irenaeus’, in Birdsall, J. N.Thomson, R. W. (eds.), Biblical and Patristic Studies in Memory of Robert Pierce Casey, Freiburg i. Br. 1963, 179Google Scholar.

page 143 note 2 van Leeuwen, P. J., Het christelijk onsterfelijkheidsgeloof, 's-Gravenhage 1955 (thesis—Groningen)Google Scholar.

page 144 note 1 Zandee, J., ‘De opstanding in de brief aan Rheginos en in het Evangelie van Philippus’, in Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift, 1962, 361 ffGoogle Scholar.

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page 145 note 1 Cf. Liddell, H. G.Scott, R., A Greek-English Lexicon 9, Oxford 1940, s.vGoogle Scholar.

page 146 note 1 Festugière, A. J., La Révélation d'Hermès Trismégiste 2, Paris 1950, i, 335 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 146 note 2 See the note of Puech–Quispel, loc. cit., x. 19; van Unnik, W. C., Nestorian Questions on the Administration of the Eucharist, Haarlem 1937 (thesis—Leyden), 94 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 146 note 3 Cf. Lehrs, J., De Aristarchi Studiis Homericis 3, Leipzig 1882, 197 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 146 note 4 Lehrs, op. cit., 214.

page 146 note 5 Tertullianus, De Resurrectione Carnis, 63.

page 147 note 1 Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, v. 31, 1.

page 147 note 2 A. J. Festugière, loc. cit., 309 ff.

page 147 note 3 See the note of Puech–Quispel, loc. cit., 30 f.

page 147 note 4 I Clement, 24; Theophilus, Ad Autolycum, i. 13; Tertullian, Apol., xlviii. 7; Minucius Felix, 34; ‘3rd Epistle to the Corinthians’, 26.

page 148 note 1 Irenaeus, Adv. Haer., i. 6, 1.

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page 148 note 4 Cf. the note of Puech–Quispel, loc. cit., 20.

page 148 note 5 Irenaeus, Adv. Haer., i. i, 3; i. 2, 6.

page 149 note 1 Houssiau, A., La Christologie de Saint Irénée, Louvain–Gembloux 1955, 37 fGoogle Scholar.

page 149 note 2 Other texts will be found in Houssiau, loc. cit., 36, n. 6 and 37, n. 2.

page 149 note 3 Barnabas v. 6; Justin Martyr, Apol., lxii. 16, cf. also 2 Tim. 1. 10.

page 150 note 1 I Cor. xv. 20, 23; cf. also Rom. viii. 29, Col. i. 18, Rev. i. 5; 1 Clement, xxiv. 1; Ignatius, Trall., ix. 2; Polycarp, Philip, ii. 2; (Ps.) Justin, De Resurr., 1; Epistl Apost., xxi. 25; 3 Cor. 31–35; Irenaeus, Adv. Haer., v. 7, 1; Tertullian, Apol., xlviii, 8; Hippolytus, fr. 8.

page 150 note 2 This idea has been fully treated by Puech–Quispel, loc. cit., xiv. ff. and 28 f. in a most interesting and illuminating discussion.

page 150 note 3 See ‘Appended Note’ at the end of the second article.

page 150 note 4 Cf. the expression of Aristides, Apol., xv. 1 about Jesus: σρκα νλαβε.

page 151 note 1 Cf. Rom. vi. 11.

page 151 note 2 Origen, Contra Celsum, vii. 32.