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Gnosticism and the History of Religions
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: David George Robertson
Categories: Electronic books
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher:

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"Gnosticism, as a category in religious studies - and public discourse - is inexorably entangled with the phenomenological "History of Religions" school. Buildi
Gnosticism and the History of Religions
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: David G. Robertson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-12 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was 'invented', this work focuses on
Gnostic Religion in Antiquity
Language: en
Pages: 267
Authors: R. van den Broek
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-24 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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An examination of Gnostic religion in Late Antiquity within its historical and religious context, using Greek, Latin and Coptic sources.
What is Gnosticism?
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Karen L. King
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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A study of gnosticism examines the various ways early Christians strove to define themselves in a pluralistic Roman society, while questioning the traditional i
The Gnostics
Language: en
Pages: 251
Authors: Andrew Phillip Smith
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-01 - Publisher: Watkins Media Limited

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According to the ancient Gnostics—the early Christians who wrote such controversial texts as the recently discovered Gospel of Judas—we are all capable of g