Corpus-Paul

["Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: JERRY SUMNEY [mailto:JSUMNEY AT LEXTHEO.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 5:09 PM
> To: Corpus-paul
> Subject: [corpus-paul] RE: Jesus and death
>
>
> Dave Hindley noted the scarcity of references to pre-existence
> for Christ in
> Paul (I think by you 3 times you meant in the Pauline Corpus, not
> the whole
> NT)and commented that there might be a gnostic sort of viewpoint reflected
> in those passages.  However, note Charles Talbert, "Myth of a
> descending-ascending redeemer myth in Mediterranean antiquity," _NTS_ 22
> (1976): 418-40 for evidence that the idea of a pre-existent descending and
> ascending redeemer figure appears outside a gnostic framework.

I don't have access to this article at the moment.
Does Talbert find this redeemer myth in pre-Pauline non-Gnostic literature?
Where does he find it, for example?

Petrement in _A Separate God_ argues (convincingly, imo) that Gnosticism
followed Pauline Christianity, not preceded it.

Thanks,
Liz
>
> Jerry
>
> Jerry L. Sumney
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