Treatise on the Resurrection
Home > Gnostics > Treatise on the Resurrection Treatise on the Resurrection At a Glance Treatise Genre: (2/5) ** Reliability of Dating: (2/5) ** Length of Text: Greek Original Language: Ancient Translations: Modern Translations: English Estimated Range of Dating: 170-200 A.D. Chronological List of Early Christian Writings Discuss this text on the Early Writings forum. Text English Translation by Malcom L. Peel Books James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library in English (San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins 1990), pp. 52-54. Recommended Books for the Study of Early Christian Writings Information on the Treatise on the Resurrection Malcom L. Peel writes (The Nag Hammadi Library in English, p. 52): "The importance of this short, eight-page, didactic letter lies in its witness to a distinctively unorthodox interpretation of Christian teaching about survival after death. By the late second century, the probable time of its composition, Christians - whether Gnostic or orthodox - were struggling with certain challenges and questions. Was such survival philosophical demonstrable (as Socrates had argued in the Phaedo)? What form might it take? (Immortality of the soul? Resurrection of the body? Reincarnation?) When would such survival be experienced? (At death? At Christ's final return? Perhaps even before death?) The New Testament teaching was somewhat ambiguous on several of these points, though within the great church there seemed general agreement on at least two matters: the prototype and basis of hope for such survival was the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the resurrection of individuals would entail their retention of personal identity." Some Contemporary Texts Marcus Aurelius (167 A.D.) Diatessaron (170-175 A.D.) Dura-Europos Gospel Harmony (170-200 A.D.) Muratorian Canon (170-200 A.D.) Treatise on the Resurrection (170-200 A.D.) 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