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Was Heracleon a Valentinian? A New Look at Old Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2006

Michael Kaler  and
Marie-Pierre Bussières
Michael Kaler
Affiliation:
McMaster University
Marie-Pierre Bussières
Affiliation:
U. of Ottawa
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Extract

Heracleon was a great second-century Christian thinker, and the author of the first known commentary on a New Testament text, the Gospel of John. Although we do not have Heracleon's commentary itself, Origen integrated a great deal of it into his own commentary on the fourth gospel.

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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 99 , Issue 3 , July 2006 , pp. 275 - 289
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

We are grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fonds québecois de recherche sur la société et la culture (as administered through the Groupe de recherche sur le christianisme et l’antiquité tardive [GRECAT] at Université Laval) for providing funding while this paper was in preparation. An earlier version of it was presented at the 2004 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Society of Patristic Studies section, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.