Sasagu Arai
Sasagu Arai (荒井 献 Arai Sasagu, born May 6, 1930) is a Japanese researcher of early Christianity[1] and Gnosticism. Arai is a Doctor of Theology Professor emeritus of University of Tokyo and Keisen University, and a member of the Japan Academy. He graduated (1962) at Erlangen-Nürnberg University in Germany.
He and his wife (and daughter Keiko) lived in the early 1960s with the family of the later Bishop of Bavaria and President of the Lutheran World Congress, Dr. Johannes Hanselmann, in Grub am Forst, Oberfranken, Germany.
Arai was a pioneer of the studies of Gnosticism after the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library.
Works
- Early Christianity and Gnosticism (1971), Iwanami shoten
- Jesus and his Age (1974), Iwanami shoten (shinsho)
- New Testament and Gnosticism (1986), Iwanami shoten
- Evangelium according to Thomas (1994), Koudansha
- Nag Hammadi Library ed. (4 vol.), (1997–1998), Iwanami shoten
- Jesus Christ, Part1, Part2 (2001), Koudansha
- Collected Works of Arai Sasagu (10 vol. and addendum book), (June 2001 - June 2002), Iwanami shoten
References
- ↑ Széll, György; Széll, Ute (2009-11-01). Quality of Life and Working Life in Comparison. Peter Lang. pp. 271–. ISBN 978-3-631-58633-4. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
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