A cosmopolitan prologue
About some traditions in the Prologue of Juan
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https://doi.org/10.47182/rb.77.n-201650Keywords:
Prologue, Gospel of John, Nag Hammadi, Philo, Imperial cultAbstract
The biblical texts of Gen 1 and 2 reflect an ancient debate between the religion of Israel and that of Egypt, using language and categories similar to those of Egypt. Perhaps for this reason, the Judeo-Hellenic communities in Egypt, better able to understand, preserve and transmit this dialectic and its impact on traditions, developed a type of literature in line with them. The Philo work is an example of this exercise, and Nag Hammadi's literature does the same. The Johannine community was probably familiar with this type of hermeneutics of Gn 1 and 2, and elaborates its own Christology with a language according to the cosmopolitan world that it had to share and capable of facing the pressure of the imperial cult, impregnated with the Egyptian worldview.
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