Apocalypse of the Alien God : : Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism / / Dylan M. Burns.
In the second century, Platonist and Judeo-Christian thought were sufficiently friendly that a Greek philosopher could declare, "What is Plato but Moses speaking Greek?" Four hundred years later, a Christian emperor had ended the public teaching of subversive Platonic thought. When and how...
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