Paradise reconsidered in Gnostic mythmaking : rethinking Sethianism in light of the Ophite evidence / / by Tuomas Rasimus.
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 the Genesis...
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| Superior document: | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, v. 68 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) |
| Notes: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Helsinki and Université Laval, 2006. |
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