Burlesques on the Secret Book of John - Couverture souple

Lass, Egon H. E.

 
9781942371724: Burlesques on the Secret Book of John
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1942371721 ISBN 13 : 9781942371724
Editeur : FutureCycle Press, 2018

Synopsis

The Secret Book of John is part of a number of Codices that were found in 1945 near the city of Nag Hammadi, Egypt. It dates to about 150 CE and is a Gnostic book, containing among other things a description of the creation of Adam. This was accomplished by a throng of 74 angels, each creating a small part of the whole. True to the theory that nothing good can come out of something created by a committee, the Adam described in this book is a kind of antithesis to Nietzsche’s Übermensch. With the bickering and jealousy among the creators, small wonder that the product turned out to be the seriously flawed normal human being that we all know so well. Some of the angels bear a striking resemblance to well-known contemporary politicians…

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À propos de l?auteur

Egon H.E. Lass has published The Seasons of Tulul, an account of life among the Bedouin of the Judaean Desert (parts of which appeared in the American Scholar), A Lean Against the Wheel (FutureCycle Press), and poems in Epicenter, Ponder Review, Omphalos, The Kansas Magazine, Passage V, etc., and about forty scientific papers in his capacity as an archaeologist.

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Éditeur
FutureCycle Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1942371721
ISBN 13 
9781942371724
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
102
Éditeur
Kistner Diane
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