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Sasagu Arai (荒井 献, Arai Sasagu, born May 6, 1930) is a Japanese researcher of early Christianity 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※

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

Edited by※

• ———, ed. (1997–1998). Nag Hammadi Library (in 4 vol.). Tōkyō: Iwanami shoten.

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