Publication

2009 - Brill, Leiden, Netherlands

Language

English

Word Count

88,750 words, Guess

Page Count

355 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • ISBN-139789004173231

Classifications

  • DDC273/.1
  • LCCBT1390 .R38 2009
  • LCCBT1390.R38 2009

Description

This work 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'.

Subjects

Topics

Series Statement

  • Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies -- v. 68
  • Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies -- 68.

Other Editions

  • Paradise reconsidered in Gnostic mythmaking: rethinking Sethianism in light of the Ophite evidenceBrill2009-01-01

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