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The so-called eighth Stromateus by Clement of Alexandria : early Christian reception of Greek scientific methodology
The so-called eighth Stromateus is a series of excerpts on inquiry, demonstration, scepticism, and causal theory, made or adopted by Clement of Alexandria. This book provides a translation and commentary of the text and a study of its origin and purpose.
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Clement of Alexandria’s Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue
Clement of Alexandria’s only explicitly stated “gnostic exposition” of the Bible occurs in Stromateis 6.16, the subject of which is the Decalogue. This paper examines what is particularly “gnostic” about this “gnostic exposition” by examining Clement’s extensive use of the ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία, along with the more explicitly (truly) “gnostic” aspects of the interpretation. Through these examinations of the “gnostic exposition,” it is concluded that Clement’s interpretation is delivered to the true Gnostic, and that Clement is teaching through a veil—by way of “hints”—in order to show the Gnostic his/her role as the teacher of the Church.
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Esoteric Teaching in the Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria
This book takes a new approach to deciphering the nature and purpose of the Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria. It provides a concise summary of current scholarship on his method and how he applies it to the transmission of esoteric doctrines.
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The seventh book of the stromateis : proceedings of the Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria (Olomouc, October 21-23, 2010)
This volume comprises sixteen studies focused on the last extant part of Clement's Stromateis. Written by specialists from seven countries, it is a compendium of contemporary scholarship dealing with major aspects of Clement's thought in general.
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The Afterlives of the Torah’s Ethnic Language
The contrast between Christian universalism and Jewish particularism, long the bedrock of popular perception and scholarly assessment, has been satisfyingly complicated by recent work on late antique foundations. Scholars of early Christianity have pointed to the significance of ethnic categories for the construction of early Christian identities.¹ While much early Christian rhetoric does indeed claim a universalizing transcendence of conventional categories of difference, Denise Buell and others have observed that the universalist strain is accompanied by an ethnicizing one and that Christian universalist language frequently relies on notions of ethnicity even when revising them. Since Christians could not easily claim
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