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Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in light of the Ophite evidence

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2009
ISBN
9789004173231, 2009029148
LCC
2009029148
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8533587 bytes)
Series
Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies. v. 68
Edition
1
Pages
400\400
Topic
Religion
Time added
2024-04-26 16:19:46

Description

Examining the mythology in and social reality behind a group of texts rewriting Genesis, to which certain leaders of the early church occasionally attached the label ‘Ophite,’ this book offers a new understanding of Sethianism and the origins of Gnosticism

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