Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking. Rethinking Sethianism in the Light of the Ophitic Evidence. By Tuomas Rasimus
In the ancient heresiologists Ophites, Naassenes, Barbeloites, and Sethians have been woven into a Gordian knot so dense that it would bury any sword that tried to cleave it. They can all be differentiated from the Valentinians by negatives: the lack of a named heresiarch, the amorphous character of...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2011
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 346-349 |
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| Summary: | In the ancient heresiologists Ophites, Naassenes, Barbeloites, and Sethians have been woven into a Gordian knot so dense that it would bury any sword that tried to cleave it. They can all be differentiated from the Valentinians by negatives: the lack of a named heresiarch, the amorphous character of their extant writings, the opacity and infrequency of tenets or terms that are manifestly scriptural. Some deny that any patristic categories can help us through this imbroglio; others contend that the Sethians admit of demarcation, the rest being merely branches, scions, or chimerical representations of this group. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flr049 |
