TY  - BOOK
AU  - Segal,Alan F.
TI  - Two powers in heaven: early rabbinic reports about Christianity and Gnosticism 
T2  - Studies in Judaism in late antiquity
SN  - 9004054537
AV  - BM646.S454.T867 1977 
PY  - 1977///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Jewish heresies
KW  - Dualism (Religion) in rabbinical literature
KW  - Rabbinical literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Gnosticism
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Heresies, Jewish
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 1; 1. Introduction --; Two powers in heaven: The history and importance of the problem; 2. The early rabbinic evidence --; Conflicting appearances of God --; Aher, Metatron, Merkabah, and the angel of YHWH --; A controversy between Ishmaeil and Akiba --; Midrashic warnings against "two powers" --; Mishnaic warnings against unorthodox prayer --; "Many powers in heaven" and Miscellaneous reports --; How many powers created the world? --; Divine powers and angels --; Summary of Rabbinic findings; 3. Philo --; Jewish Sectarian texts: Apocalypticism and mysticism ; New Testament Christianity --; The Church fathers --; Marcion --; Gnosticism
ER  -