TY  - BOOK
AU  - Segal,A.F.
TI  - Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports about Christianity and Gnosticism 
T2  - European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000
SN  - 9789004667488
AV  - BM646 
U1  - 296.3/1 23
PY  - 1977///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. 
KW  - Dualism (Religion) in rabbinical literature. 
KW  - Jewish heresies. 
KW  - Rabbinical literature
KW  - History and criticism. 
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Alan F. Segal -- Preface; Alan F. Segal -- List of Abbreviations; Alan F. Segal -- Transliterations; Alan F. Segal -- Chapter One Two Powers in Heaven; Alan F. Segal -- Chapter Two Conflicting Appearances of God; Alan F. Segal -- Chapter Three Aher, Metatron, Merkabah and the Angel of YHWH; Alan F. Segal -- Chapter Four A Controversy between Ishmael and Akiba; Alan F. Segal -- Chapter Five Midrashic Warning against “Two Powers”; Alan F. Segal -- Chapter Six Mishnaic Prohibitions against Unorthodox Prayer; Alan F. Segal -- Chapter Seven “Many Powers in Heaven” and Miscellaneous Reports; Alan F. Segal -- Chapter Eight How Many Powers Created the World?; Alan F. Segal -- Chapter Nine Divine Powers and Angels; Alan F. Segal -- Chapter Ten Summary of Rabbinic Findings; Alan F. Segal -- Chapter Eleven Philo; Alan F. Segal -- Chapter Twelve Jewish Sectarian Texts; Alan F. Segal -- Chapter Thirteen The Church Fathers; Alan F. Segal -- Chapter Fourteen Marcion; Alan F. Segal -- Chapter Fifteen Gnosticism; Alan F. Segal -- Chapter Sixteen Conclusions; Alan F. Segal -- Bibliography; Alan F. Segal -- I. Rabbinic Writings; Alan F. Segal -- II. Extra-Rabbinic Writings; Alan F. Segal -- III. Scriptural References; Alan F. Segal -- IV. Subjects; Alan F. Segal
N2  - The history of Jews from the period of the Second Temple to the rise of Islam
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004667488
ER  -