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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.

Introduction	p. 1
The Fusion of Creation Myth and Salvation History	p. 1
Identifying the Vorleben of the Christological Creation Myth	p. 4
A Liturgical Vorleben	p. 4
A Hebraic Sapiential Vorleben	p. 6
A Hellenistic Jewish Vorleben	p. 12
Hellenistic Sapiential and Exegetical Traditions	p. 12
"Gnosticism"	p. 16
A Middle Platonic Vorleben	p. 20
One Cosmology, Three Soteriologies: A Study of the Appropriation of Middle Platonic Intermediary Doctrine by Hellenistic Sapientialism, Early Christianity and Gnosticism	p. 24
The Question behind this Study	p. 24
The Thesis of this Study	p. 24
Methods and Methodological Caveats	p. 25
Summary of Introduction	p. 27
Middle Platonic Intermediary Doctrine	p. 28
A Transcendent Supreme Principle	p. 31
Demiurgic Activity and the Intermediate Principle	p. 35
Prepositional Metaphysics	p. 43
Excursus #1: The Prepositional Phrase [characters not reproducible]	p. 47
The Anagogic Function of the Intermediate Principle	p. 51
Summary of Chapter Two	p. 55
Salvation as the Fulfillment of Creation: The Roles of the Divine Intermediary in Hellenistic Judaism	p. 56
Wisdom of Solomon	p. 58
Introduction	p. 58
Sophia as Cosmological Agent in Wisdom of Solomon 6-10	p. 61
Sophia's Ontology	p. 64
Sophia's Cosmogonic Function	p. 70
Sophia's Administration of the Cosmos	p. 74
Sophia, Salvation and Anthropological Fulfillment	p. 77
"She makes them friends of God"	p. 77
Sophia and the Unity of Creation and "Salvation"	p. 81
Excursus #2: Sophia and "Salvation History" in Wisdom of Solomon 10	p. 83
Excursus #3: The Mystical and Philosophical Aspects of "Friendship with God"	p. 84
Conclusion to "Wisdom of Solomon"	p. 87
Philo of Alexandria	p. 87
Introduction	p. 87
The Questions of Intermediary Activity as they are Raised by Philo - Sacr. 8	p. 91
God?	p. 94
Between God and Creation: An Intermediary Nexus	p. 96
The Many Names of the Intermediary	p. 96
The Ways of Being of the Philonic Intermediary	p. 99
The Functions of the Intermediate Nexus: The Logos of Cosmology	p. 102
The Logos as Agent of Creation	p. 103
The Instrumental Use of the Logos: The Logos as [characters not reproducible]	p. 104
The Logos as Divider: The Logos as [characters not reproducible]	p. 111
The Paradigmatic Use of the Logos: The Logos as [characters not reproducible]	p. 116
"This teaching is Moses', not mine."	p. 118
The [characters not reproducible] and the Form of Reason	p. 122
Philo's Cosmological Ideas	p. 125
The Stoic Aspect: The Logos and Cosmic [characters not reproducible]	p. 127
The Anthropological Role of the Logos	p. 130
A Page from Stoic Anthropology	p. 130
The Logos and Psychic Anagogy	p. 133
Conclusion to "Philo of Alexandria"	p. 138
Summary of Chapter Three	p. 140
Salvation as the Reparation of Creation: The Roles of the Divine Intermediary in New Testament Christology	p. 141
Ontology and Eschatology in Conflict 1 Corinthians 8:6 - An Introductory Case Study	p. 141
The Origin and Nature of 1 Cor 8:6	p. 141
Function of Text	p. 141
Origin of the Text	p. 143
Whose Soteriology? Corinthian vs. Pauline Soteriology in 1 Cor 8:6	p. 148
The Difficulty with Crediting Paul for Creating 1 Cor 8:6	p. 148
The More Suitable Context: How 1 Cor 8:6 fits with the Corinthians' Thought	p. 151
Seeking a Solution to the Question: From Whence Comes 1 Cor 8:6?	p. 156
Eschatological vs. Ontological Anthropology	p. 159
Conclusion to "1 Corinthians 8:6"	p. 161
Colossians 1:15-20	p. 161
Structure and Origin of Colossians 1:15-20	p. 163
Structure	p. 163
Origin	p. 169
Cosmological Agency in Col 1:15-20	p. 172
The Son's Ontological Status in Col 1:15	p. 172
Cosmogonic Functions of the Son in Col 1:16	p. 175
The Son as Continually Sustaining the Cosmos	p. 180
Summary of the Cosmology of the Colossian Hymn	p. 182
Soteriological Agency in Col 1:15-20	p. 182
The Son's New Ontological Status	p. 183
The Purpose (Clause) of the Second Strophe	p. 184
The Son's Reparation of the Cosmos	p. 185
Summary of the Soteriology of the Colossian Hymn	p. 190
Interrelationship of Cosmology and Soteriology in Col 1:15-20	p. 191
Hebrews 1:1-4	p. 193
Origin and Nature of Hebrews 1:1-4	p. 193
Structure	p. 195
Source(s)?	p. 199
Cosmology in Heb 1:2c and 3ab: The Son in relation to God and the Cosmos	p. 204
Heb 1:2c: "through whom he made the ages"	p. 205
Heb 1:3ab: "he who is the effulgence of his glory and impression of his nature bears all things by his powerful word"	p. 207
Excursus #4: [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] in Philo and in Hebrews	p. 211
Soteriology	p. 219
Heb 1:2b: "whom he appointed heir of all things"	p. 219
Heb 1:3cd: "when he made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high"	p. 220
Interrelationship of Cosmology and Soteriology	p. 223
The Johannine Prologue	p. 227
Origin and Nature of the John Prologue	p. 227
The Prologue's Cosmology: John 1:1-5	p. 232
Ontology: the Divine Status of the Logos (John 1:1)	p. 233
Cosmogony: the Creative Agency of the Logos (John 1:3, 10b)	p. 235
Anthropological Sustenance: the Logos as Locus of Life and Light (John 1:3c-5)	p. 238
Excursus #5: Logos-centric Interpretation of Genesis 1 in Philo of Alexandria and the Prologue to John	p. 242
Soteriology	p. 250
Soteriology in Strophe 2	p. 251
The Logos in the World (John 1:10)	p. 252
The Logos Among its Own (John 1:11)	p. 253
The Children of the Logos (John 1:12ab)	p. 254
Soteriology in Strophe 3	p. 255
From Cosmology to Radical Historicization	p. 257
Excursus #6: The Extent of Historicization of Hellenistic Sophialogical Intermediaries	p. 258
Evidence from Proverbs, Sirach, 1 Enoch, Matthew, Gospel of Thomas	p. 258
The Advent of Sophia in Wisdom of Solomon	p. 261
Can the Philonic Logos Come Unto His Own?	p. 264
The Problem of the [characters not reproducible]	p. 269
Interrelationship of Soteriology and Cosmology in the Johannine Prologue	p. 272
Summary of Chapter Four	p. 275
Salvation as the Undoing of Creation: The Roles of the Divine Intermediary in "Gnosticism"	p. 276
Corpus Hermeticum 1: "Poimandres"	p. 284
Introduction	p. 284
The Content of Corpus Hermeticum 1	p. 286
The Religious and Intellectual Provenance of Corpus Hermeticum 1	p. 288
Theology, Cosmology and Anthropology in the Corpus Hermeticum 1	p. 292
Who is the First Principle in Poimandres?	p. 292
Cosmogony in CH 1 and the Committee of Intermediaries	p. 295
The Will of God and Forethought	p. 295
The [characters not reproducible] and the Creation of the Formal Universe	p. 296
The [characters not reproducible] and the Creation of the Material Universe	p. 298
[characters not reproducible] and Anthropogony	p. 300
Salvation in Poimandres: The Two Ways	p. 303
Identifying the Ways	p. 303
Excursus #7: Structure and Prepositional Phrases in CH 1.21	p. 305
The Presence of Mind and the Ascent of the Soul	p. 306
Conclusion: Shades of [characters not reproducible]	p. 308
Summary of Poimandres' Presentation of Intermediaries	p. 308
[characters not reproducible] The Calling of Hermes	p. 311
The Apocryphon of John	p. 313
Introduction	p. 313
Sethianism	p. 314
The Apocryphon of John	p. 317
The Content and Composition of Ap. John	p. 318
Similar Themes, Dissimilar Results	p. 321
Intermediate Reality and the Cosmology of Ap. John	p. 325
The Unknowable Monad Knows Himself	p. 325
From Transcendent Monad to Father of the All	p. 328
The Ontology of Barbelo	p. 329
The Barbelo and (Celestial) Cosmogony	p. 332
The Self Generated and the Origin of the All	p. 336
Intermediate Reality and the Soteriology of the Apocryphon of John	p. 338
Recasting the Anthropology of Genesis	p. 339
Soteriological Anthropogony	p. 341
Barbelo as Anagogue	p. 343
Summary of Chapter Five	p. 351
Conclusion	p. 352
Thesis Statement	p. 352
First Move - The Source Tradition: Middle Platonic Intermediary Doctrine	p. 352
The Second Move - Hellenistic Jewish Sapientialism: The Divine Intermediary and the Fulfillment of Cosmology	p. 353
Third Move - Early Christianity: The Divine Intermediary and the Reparation of Creation	p. 354
Fourth Move: Gnosticism - The Divine Intermediary and the Undoing of Creation	p. 355
Synthesis	p. 356
Bibliography	p. 358
Primary Sources	p. 358
Secondary Sources	p. 360
Index of Modern Authors	p. 372
Index of Ancient Sources	p. 375
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