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Exegesis on the Soul
Excerpt from the Lexham Bible Dictionary, the most advanced Bible dictionary.
Exegesis on the Soul. A noncanonical work found in the Nag Hammadi Codices. An interpretive, likely gnostic treatise that claims to explain the soul’s descent to earth from heaven and what is necessary for it to ascend. This work was never widely authoritative during the early church period.
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Exegesis on the Soul
Exegesis on the Soul Exegesis on the Soul. A noncanonical work found in the Nag Hammadi Codices. An interpretive, likely gnostic treatise that claims to explain the soul’s descent to earth from heaven and what is necessary for it to ascend. This work was never widely authoritative during the early church
The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
Exegesis on the Soul
EXEGESIS ON THE SOUL (NHC II,6). A devout gnosticizing early Christian exhortation to otherworldliness composed of narrative, Scripture, and paraenesis. No trace of the presumed Greek original remains except the Coptic translation (Sahidic dialect) on pp. 127–37 of Codex II from the cache of late 4th-century
The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 2, D–G
Exegesis on the Soul
Exegesis on the Soul. A Christian-Gnostic treatise, in the form of a hortatory narrative, preserved in the Nag Hammadi Library (NHC II, 6). The document survives in a 4th-cent. Coptic ms, apparently the translation of an early 3rd-cent. Greek original. The narrative, interspersed with biblical quotations,