Poetics of the gnostic universe : narrative and cosmology in the Apocryphon of John /

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. The author examines its target text...

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Main Author: Pleše, Zlatko
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Series:Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 52.
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