英文摘要 |
The Odes of Solomon is the oldest extant Christian hymnal that can be dated back to the mid-1st and early 2nd centuries. The hymns collected in the Odes are not only ancient ritual texts with great historical and theological significance, they are also considered by some churches to be divine revelations with the same status as scripture. The work also reveals to us how a hymnal can be both fides qua creditor and fides quae creditor: in the first and second centuries CE, the Odes became a text that the ancient Jewish Christians used to express and strengthen their religious identity as both followers of Jesus and heirs of the Israel faith tradition; it also contains important Christian teachings regarding the Holy Spirit (Pneumatology), the Trinity, and Christology, and even the Mariology. This paper, by examining the Odes' lyrics and their textual relations with the [Christians'] Old and New Testaments, 1 Enoch, and the Apostolic Fathers, argues that the Odes represents early church's continuation of and break with the faith tradition of Israel; the theologies and [Merkabah] mysticism found in the Odes' lyrics illustrate why, from the early second century, they were not accepted by the emerging proto-orthodox catholic/universal church, especially given their high esteem for the Holy Spirit and the prophets. |