Book contents
- Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East
- Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Inventing Prophethood?
- 2 Contextualizing Manichaean Prophetology in the Syro-Mesopotamian Borderlands
- 3 “Impregnated by the Hands of God”
- 4 Listening to the Prophet
- 5 Toward a New Prognosis
- 6 Angelic Contemplation in the Sar Torah and the Prognostic Turn
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Toward a New Prognosis
Neoplatonists, Manichaeans, and the Ps.-Clementine Homilies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2023
Book contents
- Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East
- Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Inventing Prophethood?
- 2 Contextualizing Manichaean Prophetology in the Syro-Mesopotamian Borderlands
- 3 “Impregnated by the Hands of God”
- 4 Listening to the Prophet
- 5 Toward a New Prognosis
- 6 Angelic Contemplation in the Sar Torah and the Prognostic Turn
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter investigates the contours of prognosis itself. It begins by describing prognosis in the Neoplatonist Iamblichus’ De Mysteriis. It then “catches” Iamblichus in the act of inventing a new definition of prognosis in his response to Porphyry, shifting it away from discrete knowledge of particular events towards panoptic knowledge that emerges as an expression of divine substance. This chapter then shows how both the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies and the Manichaeans were also theorizing prognosis along similar lines.
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- Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East , pp. 197 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023