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Paradise reconsidered in Gnostic mythmaking : rethinking Sethianism in light of the Ophite evidence /
This book offers a new understanding of Sethianism and the origins of Gnosticism by examining the mythology in and social reality behind a group of texts to which certain leaders of the early church occasionally attached the label a ~Ophite.a (TM) In the unique Ophite mythology, which rewrites the G...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Colección: | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ;
68. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I. Introduction. Rethinking Sethianism
- pt. II. Myth and innovation. The serpent
- The creator and the Archons
- Sophia, Eve and gnosis
- Adam and Christ
- The pillars of Seth : Sethianization of Ophite and Barbeloite myths
- pt. III. Ritual. Evidence for Ophite snake worship
- Anathema Iesous : Origen on the Ophite cursing of Jesus
- The Ophite seal, Sethian baptism and the Johannine prologue.