Poetics of the Gnostic universe
narrative and cosmology in the Apocryphon of John
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Word Count
82,250 words, Guess
Page Count
329 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL24051787M
- ISBN-109004116745
- OCLC Control Number62755661
- Library of Congress Control Number2005058214
Classifications
- DDC229/.94
- LCCBT1392.A752 P54 2006
Description
This volume is both an essay in Gnostic poetics and a study in the history of early Christian appropriation of ancient philosophy. The object of study is the cosmological model of the Apocryphon of John, a first-hand and fully narrated version of the Gnostic myth.
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Series Statement
- Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies -- 52
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