| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 355 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; v. 68 |
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Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 68.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 a ̃Ophite.a (TM) In the unique Ophite mythology, which rewrites the Genesis paradise story and is attested, for example, in Irenaeusa (TM) "Adversus haereses" 1.30, "The Apocryphon of John" and "On the Origin of the World," the snakea (TM)s advice to eat of the tree of knowledge is considered positive, the creator and his angels are turn |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-312) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sethians.
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Ophites.
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RELIGION -- History.
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Ophites
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Sethians
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Sethianer
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Ophiten
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Mythos
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Spekulative Theologie
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Schlangen
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Symbol
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Weisheit
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Gnosis
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Nag Hammadi
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789047426707 |
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9047426703 |
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1282949500 |
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9781282949508 |
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9786612949500 |
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6612949503 |
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