Paradise reconsidered in Gnostic mythmaking : rethinking Sethianism in light of the Ophite evidence /

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 'Ophite.' In the unique Ophite mythology, which rewrites th...

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Main Author: Rasimus, Tuomas.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 68.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2010, ISBN: 9789004222731.

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Sethians.
Ophites.

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Call Number: BT1390 .R38 2009

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