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Above all this is illustrated by means of John's baptism, that is, the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist (30–32 37f.)…”ħ1. 210, Google Scholar likewise observes: “Among the tractates, which express in detail and explicitly a denigration of water baptism, belongs the ParShem (VII,1). 90, declares: “It is at this level that it is without doubt making an allusion to the baptism of Jesus.” Kurt Rudolph, “Coptica-Mandaica,” in Krause,, ENHT, p.

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Soldas seems once again to be a code name for Jesus, with whom the heavenly Christ (Derdekeas) is associated.” Of this passage (37,14–25) Sevrin, p. 266, Google Scholar comments: “Though there are images, where one cannot find any relationship between the otherwise typical Gnostic Christ and Derdekeas, there are other passages, above all in the section on Soldas, with whom Derdekeas is related, where one can trace the thematic influence of the Christian Gnostic Christ figure. 59, “The revealer of the faith, however, is Jesus.” Karl-Martin Fischer, “Die Paraphrase des Seem,” in Krause,, ENHT, p. 57, Google Scholar asks: “Is it a matter of a secret name for Christ?”, and answers, p. Google Scholar The Berliner Arbeitskreise in Troöger,, GNT, p. Sevrin, Jean-Marie, “ À propos de le Paraphrase de Sem,” Le Musèon 88 ( 1975): 87. 41– 42: Google Scholar “We believe that we can propose that this editor belonged to a Sethian Archontic milieu, and that he maintained a position of opposition with regard to the traditional conception of baptism, whether this conception had been that of his original sect, whether it had been that of a baptist group of the period (Elchasaism, for example), or whether finally it had been that of Christianity.” Cf. Morard, Francoise, “L'Apocalypse d'Adam de Nag Hammadi,” in Krause, Martin, ed., Gnosis and Gnosticism ( Leiden, 1975), pp. 215, Google Scholar also notes the contrast between baptism in the Mandaic literature and the Nag Hammadi texts: “Also the connection between the reception of gnosis and baptism is only poorly developed in the Mandaica, a fact which leads us to conclude that here the old cultic basis remained dominant, in contrast to the Gnostic Coptica.” Cf. Google Scholar Kurt Rudolph, “Coptica-Mandaica,” in Krause,, ENHT, p.

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