RT Book T1 Cosmology and fate in gnosticism and Graeco-Roman antiquity: under pitiless skies T2 Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies JF Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies A1 Denzey Lewis, Nicola 1966- LA English PP Leiden u.a. PB Brill YR 2013 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/733328113 AB Were the gnostics cosmic pessimists? -- Nag Hammadi and the providential cosmos -- "This body of death" : cosmic malevolence and enslavement to sin in Pauline exegesis -- Heimarmene at Nag Hammadi : the Apocryphon of John and On the origin of the world -- Middle platonism, Heimarmene, and the Corpus Hermeticum -- Ways out I : interventions of the savior god -- Ways out II : baptism and cosmic freedom : a new genisis -- Astral "determinism" in the Gospel of Judas -- Conclusions, and a new way forward NO Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-202) and index CN BT1390 SN 9789004245488 K1 Gnosticism K1 Cosmology K1 Fate and fatalism K1 Hochschulschrift