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9783110193428
This study compares writings from Second Temple Judaism, the New Testament and Gnosticism that adopt the Middle Platonic tri-partite view of reality, with its transcendent One, its cosmologically active intermediary, and its material realm, in their efforts to explain the relationship between the Deity and the physical cosmos. The study shows that these Jewish, Christian and Gnostic writings take up this intermediary doctrine to different ends, reflecting their distinctive views about creation and humanitya (TM)s place therein.Cox, Ronald is the author of 'By the Same Word', published 2007 under ISBN 9783110193428 and ISBN 3110193426.
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