Heralds of That Good Realm : Syro-Mesopotamian Gnosis and Jewish Traditions /

This volume examines the transmission of biblical pseudepigraphic literature and motifs from their largely Jewish cultural contexts in Palestine to developing gnostic milieux of Syria and Mesopotamia, particularly that one lying behind the birth and growth of Manichaeism. It surveys biblical pseudep...

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Main Author: Reeves, John (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1996.

Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies ; 41.

Subjects:

Cologne Mani codex.

Manichaeism > Iraq.

Manichaeism > Syria.

Apocryphal books (Old Testament)