As Below, So Above : : Apocalypticism, Gnosticism and the Scribes of Qumran and Nag Hammadi / / Glen J. Fairen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Fairen, Glen J.,
• MitwirkendeR: Marx, Karl,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; 1 INTRODUCTION --; 2. APOCALYPSES, APOCALYPTICS AND APOCALYPTICISMS --; 3. THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AS A CIPHER FOR JUDAISM --; 4. GNOSTICISM AS THE HERETICAL BOOGEYMAN --; 5. THE ANTI-CANON OF THE NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY --; 6. PROPHETS, SCRIBES AND THE BOOK OF WATCHERS AT QUMRAN AND NAG HAMMADI --; 7. CONCLUSION --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX OF SUBJECTS --; INDEX OF NAMES --; INDEX OF ANCIENT TEXTS
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463215378; 9783111024141; 9783110663037; 9783110716849
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463215378
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Glen J. Fairen.

Questioning the scholarly assumptions regarding the “heretical” Nag Hammadi Library and the “apocalyptic” Dead Sea Scrolls, Fairen argues that they were not diametrically opposed, but represent a scribal reconfiguration of an Enochic worldview as a critique of foreign rule.