Sasagu Arai Explained

was 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, 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

Books

• Book: Arai . Sasagu . Die Christologie des Evangelium veritatis : eine religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung . Leiden . E.J.Brill . 1964 .
• Book: Arai . Sasagu . 3 . Early Christianity and Gnosticism . Tōkyō . Iwanami shoten . 1971 . 33551535 .
• Book: Arai . Sasagu . 3 . Jesus and his Age . Tōkyō . Iwanami shoten . 1974 . 14945510 .
• Book: Arai . Sasagu . 3 . New Testament and Gnosticism . Iwanami seminā bukkusu . 27 . Tōkyō . Iwanami shoten . 1988 . 9784000048972 . 20629802 .
• Book: Arai . Sasagu . 3 . Evangelium according to Thomas . Tōkyō . Koudansha . 1994 .
• Book: Arai . Sasagu . 3 . Jesus Christ, Part1, Part2 . Tōkyō . Koudansha . 2001 .
• Book: Arai . Sasagu . 3 . Collected Works of Arai Sasagu (10 vol. and addendum book . Tōkyō . Iwanami shoten . June 2001 – June 2002 .

Edited by

• Book: Arai . Sasagu . 3 . Nag Hammadi Library (in 4 vol.) . Tōkyō . Iwanami shoten . 1997–1998 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Széll. György. Széll. Ute. Quality of Life and Working Life in Comparison. 8 May 2011. 2009-11-01. Peter Lang. 978-3-631-58633-4. 271–.