From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 18:01:27 EDT
In a message dated 10/6/03 3:41:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
bnelson301@yahoo.com writes:
> These are later commentaries you cite, which is fine, but historically,
> that does not appear to be the
> Jewish understanding preceding the writing of Rom 5.12ff -- it is an
> understanding that is absent in
> Hebrew scriptures. Later Rabinnical exegesis can hardly be used to explain
> what Paul means in Rom
> 5:12ff.
>
>
Not so fast...
"The most notable feature of the apocalypse of Adam is the absence of any
explicit or clear borrowing from the Christian tradition. This has led several
interpreters to see in it a witness to a non-Christian gnosticism which contains
an already well developed redeemer myth. On the other hand, its close
dependence on Jewish apocalyptic tradition suggests that it may represent a
transitional stage in an evolution from Jewish to gnostic apocalyptic. In this case
the document may be a very early one, perhaps first or second century C.E...."
from The Nag Hammadi Library, James M. robinson general editor, Harper
Collins - foreword to The Apocalypse of Adam
Not later rabinnical exegesis... which incidentally concurs with this
earlier view anyway.
The cite I made:
"Then God, the ruler of the aeons and the powers, divided us in wrath. Then
we became two aeons."
"Since that time we learned about dead things, like men. Then we recognized
the God who created us."
Thanks
rich faussette
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