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Hardcover Poetics of the Gnostic Universe: Narrative and Cosmology in the Apocryphon of John Book

ISBN: 9004116745

ISBN13: 9789004116740

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 his target text against a complex background of religious and philosophical systems, literary theories, and rhetorical techniques of the period, and argues...

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