Tertullians Gegnerin aus De baptismo 1 und Die Paraphrase des Sêem (NHC VII,1)

Schmid, Herbert (2022): Tertullians Gegnerin aus De baptismo 1 und Die Paraphrase des Sêem (NHC VII,1). In: Vigiliae Christianae, Bd. 76, Nr. 5: S. 483-532

Abstract

Right at the beginning of his On Baptism, Tertullian points out that he has composed this writing against a teacher of the Cainite heresy. Although Caina does not appear in the manuscripts, it is made plausible by the state of the textual transmission, especially by Jerome's reception of Tertullian (Ep. 69.1.2). It may have been Irenaeus' polemics (haer. 1.31) that first made Cain the protagonist of radical criticism against the God of the Book of Genesis, whence later heresiologists deduced the existence of Cainites. The Paraphrase of Seem (NHC VII 1) could belong to a tradition which the heresiologists would have labelled cainite. This text contains an exegesis of Gen 1 which leads to fundamental criticism of baptism with water. Now Tertullian draws his arguments in support of water baptism right from Gen 1, and his arguments, quite remarkably, make good sense as a reply to NHC VII 1.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Katholische Theologie
• Themengebiete: 200 Religion > 200 Religion
• ISSN: 0042-6032
• Sprache: Deutsch