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Joel Kalvesmaki, The Theology of Arithmetic: Number Symbolism in Platonism and Early Christianity
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Generating the World of Numbers: Pythagorean and Platonist Number Symbolism in the First Century
3. The Rise of the Early Christian Theology of Arithmetic: The Valentinians
4. The Apogee of Valentinian Number Symbolism: Marcus “Magus”
5. Alternate Paths in the Early Christian Theology of Arithmetic: Monoïmus and the Paraphrase of the “Apophasis Megale”
6. The Orthodox Limits of the Theology of Arithmetic: Irenaeus of Lyons
7. The Orthodox Possibilities of the Theology of Arithmetic: Clement of Alexandria
8. How the Early Christian Theology of Arithmetic Shaped Neo-Platonism and Late Antique Christianity
Excursus A. One versus One: The Differentiation between Hen and Monad in Hellenistic and Late Antique Philosophy
Excursus B. The Pythagorean Symbol of the Τετρακτύς
Excursus C. The Dyadic Character of A Valentinian Exposition
Appendix. Greek Texts
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BCNH.T = Bibliothèque copte de Nag Hammadi. Section “Textes.”
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FOTC = Fathers of the Church
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KRS = Kirk et al. 1983
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LCL = Loeb Classical Library
LXX = Septuagint
NH = Nag Hammadi
NHS = Nag Hammadi [and Manichaean] Studies
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PG = Patrologiae cursus completus, Series graeca. 161 vols. in 166 pts.
PRE = Pauly’s Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. 1837–1852. Stuttgart.
SBL = Society of Biblical Literature
SC = Sources chrétiennes
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TLG = Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
TRE = Krause, G., and G. Müller, eds. 1977–. Theologische Realenzyklopädie. Berlin.
WUNT = Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament