Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism. By Dylan M. Burns
Few historians of Greek philosophy are able to read the Nag Hammadi Codices in the original; those who can are seldom able to situate them in the history of Greek philosophy. This monograph, which begins as an analysis of Enneads 2.9 and ends by tracing Gnosticism to its cradle, is a rare specimen o...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 724-726 |
| Review of: | Apocalypse of the Alien God (Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) (Edwards, Mark)
Apocalypse of the alien god (Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) (Edwards, Mark) |
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| Summary: | Few historians of Greek philosophy are able to read the Nag Hammadi Codices in the original; those who can are seldom able to situate them in the history of Greek philosophy. This monograph, which begins as an analysis of Enneads 2.9 and ends by tracing Gnosticism to its cradle, is a rare specimen of the ambidextrous scholarship which is necessary to the further progress of Gnostic studies. In his opening chapter on norms of Greek education, Burns notes that to be a good Hellene in this period was not only to put on the garb of a sophist or a philosopher but to take part in corporate offerings to the gods. |
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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/flu117 |