6. Ancient Greek Patterns of Knowledge Transmission and their Continuity in Gnostic Esotericism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Do Not Disperse the Collection! Motivations and Strategies for Protecting Cuneiform Scholarship in the First Millennium BCE 8
6. 2. Multilingualism, Multiscripturalism, and Knowledge Transfer in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Graeco-Roman Judaea 46
7. 3. Sharing and Hiding Religious Knowledge in the Book of Jubilees 72
8. 4. The Torah Between Revelation and Concealment in Rabbinic Traditions Pertaining to the Conquest of the Land of Canaan 85
9. 5. Alexandria, Diaspora, Politeuma and Patrioi Nomoi: The Sharing and Hiding of Jewish Identity 106
10. 6. Ancient Greek Patterns of Knowledge Transmission and their Continuity in Gnostic Esotericism 121
11. 7. The Sign of Socrates, The Sign of Apollo, and the Signs of Christ: Hiding and Sharing Religious Knowledge in the Gospel of John – A Contrapuntal Reading of John’s Gospel and Plato’s Dialogues 145
12. 8. “They Wish to Extinguish the Light of God with Their Mouths” (Qurʾān 9:32): A Qurʾānic Critique of Late Antique Scholasticism? 171
13. 9. Techniques for Guarding and Restricting Esoteric Knowledge in the Ismaili Daʿwa during the Fatimid Period 186
14. Thor Index 199
15. Sources Index 204