Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence - Couverture rigide

Rasimus, Tuomas

 
9789004173231: Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004173234 ISBN 13 : 9789004173231
Editeur : Brill, 2009

Synopsis

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 'Ophite.' In the unique Ophite mythology, which rewrites the Genesis paradise story and is attested, for example, in Irenaeus' Adversus haereses 1.30, The Apocryphon of John and On the Origin of the World, the snake's advice to eat of the tree of knowledge is considered positive, the creator and his angels are turned into demonic beasts and the true Godhead is presented as an androgynous heavenly projection of Adam and Eve. It is argued that Hans-Martin Schenke's influential model of the 'Sethian system' only reveals part of a larger whole to which the Ophite material belongs as an important and organic component.

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À propos de l?auteur

Tuomas Rasimus, Ph.D., Th.D. (2006-7), earned his doctorates from a joint degree between Université Laval and University of Helsinki. He has published articles related to Gnosticism, New Testament and Neoplatonism, and is the editor of The Legacy of John (Brill, 2009).

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004173234
ISBN 13 
9789004173231
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
376
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