The Crucified Book: Sacred Writing in the Age of Valentinus by Kreps, Anne Starr

The Crucified Book: Sacred Writing in the Age of Valentinus

In the Gospel of Truth, a second-century text associated with the Christian Platonist Valentinus, a crucified Jesus...
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Author: Anne Starr Kreps
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The Crucified Book: Sacred Writing in the Age of Valentinus by Kreps, Anne Starr

The Crucified Book: Sacred Writing in the Age of Valentinus

$208.58

The Crucified Book: Sacred Writing in the Age of Valentinus

$208.58
Author: Anne Starr Kreps
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In the Gospel of Truth, a second-century text associated with the Christian Platonist Valentinus, a crucified Jesus is depicted as wrapped in a scroll and reading aloud the contents of his heart as he dies. This is just one of many strange appearances of the physical book in this text and in the surviving fragments of Valentinus. Through its representations of the written word, Anne Kreps argues, the Gospel of Truth promoted a living document perspective on the holy book, encouraging the generation of religious books as new sources of revelatory authority.

The Crucified Book locates the Gospel of Truth in a broader ancient debate about books and their attendant authority. Roman and Jewish texts exhibit similar efforts to equate holy persons with holy texts, while Christian heresiologists exhibit awareness of the phenomenon even as they condemn it. Although the Gospel of Truth is often set apart from mainstream Christianity in scholarship, its ideas about the nature of authoritative writing engaged with Greco-Roman culture and cohered with Jewish and Christian ideas about books in antiquity. Valentinus' views about the relationship between the oral and the written dovetailed with thinking on the nature of the sacred book that gradually became the trademark of Rabbinic Judaism, Kreps contends. Ultimately, because the Gospel of Truth reflects a mind that was at the center of the discursive debates that formed Judaism and Christianity, her book demonstrates the usefulness of so-called heretical texts for discussions on the parting of the ways between the two traditions.

Author: Anne Starr Kreps
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 03/29/2022
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780812253870

About the Author
Anne Starr Kreps is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon.

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