caa a22 4500 386362238 CHVBK 20180307111919.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0028688500024607 doi S0028688500024607 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0028688500024607 Fossum Jarl Ann Arbor, Michigan,U.S.A Colossians 1. 15-18a. in the Light of Jewish Mysticism and Gnosticism [Elektronische Daten] [Jarl Fossum] Ernst Käsemann's theory that the Christ hymn in Col 1. 15-20.is an adapted pre-Christian hymn about the Gnostic Urmensch-Erlöser, who had both a cosmological and a soteriological significance, has not fared well. Even with the deletion of the words διτοû αματος τοû σταυροû αύτοû in v. 20, the sentiment persists that the second part of the hymn - which is soteriological - cannot speak of anyone else than Christ. More importantly, evidence for the existence of a Gnostic Urmensch-Erlöser is lacking until Mani's time. As a matter of fact, even pre-Manichean Gnosticism, in which we find both various Urmensch figures and redeemers, cannot be proven to antedate Christianity. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 New Testament Studies Cambridge University Press 35/2(1989-04), 183-201 0028-6885 35:2<183 1989 35 NTS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0028688500024607 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0028688500024607 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Fossum Jarl Ann Arbor, Michigan,U.S.A NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Testament Studies Cambridge University Press 35/2(1989-04), 183-201 0028-6885 35:2<183 1989 35 NTS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge