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 / / by Tuomas Rasimus.

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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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Rasimus, Tuomas.
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 68.
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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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Introduction. Rethinking Sethianism
  • pt. II. Myth and innovation. The serpent
  • The creator and the Archons
  • Sophia, Eve and gnosis
  • Adam and Christ
  • The pillars of Seth : Sethianization of Ophite and Barbeloite myths
  • pt. III. Ritual. Evidence for Ophite snake worship
  • Anathema Iesous : Origen on the Ophite cursing of Jesus
  • The Ophite seal, Sethian baptism and the Johannine prologue.

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