In this book, Professor Simut shows how Christian theology started to be understood as a Gnostic philosophy of religion in the thought of the 19th-century scholar F.C. Baur. Although Baur was seen traditionally as a theologian and biblical exegete, Simut argues that he was in fa…
In this book, Professor Simut shows how Christian theology started to be understood as a Gnostic philosophy of religion in the thought of the 19th-century scholar F.C. Baur. Although Baur was seen traditionally as a theologian and biblical exegete, Simut argues that he was in fa…
"This volume publishes papers read at the ninth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2012. The authors explore various aspects of manifestations of the female principle within the literature of the Ancient Near East, Early Judaism, and the nascent Ch…
"This volume publishes papers read at the ninth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2012. The authors explore various aspects of manifestations of the female principle within the literature of the Ancient Near East, Early Judaism, and the nascent Ch…
"This volume publishes papers read at the ninth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2012. The authors explore various aspects of manifestations of the female principle within the literature of the Ancient Near East, Early Judaism, and the nascent Ch…
"Despite the surge of interest in Gnostic texts following the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library, the Coptic Books of Jeu and Pistis Sophia remain understudied. Often dismissed as convoluted, confused, and repetitious, Erin Evans convincingly shows that these texts represent t…
In The Books of Jeu and the Pistis Sophia as Handbooks to Eternity Erin Evans offers an in-depth examination of the Coptic Books of Jeu and Pistis Sophia, demonstrating their system of cosmology and ritual practice, and their relationship to other contemporary Gnostic myths and …
Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction: The gnostic background of Plotinus's mysticism - The structure of Plotinus' ascent to mystical union with the One - The identity of prenoetic and hypernoetic subjects in Plotinus - "The way of ascent is the way of descent" : the mechanism of tra…