Gnostic Religion in Antiquity Hardback - Hardcover

Van Den Broek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107031370 ISBN 13: 9781107031371

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2013

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A fresh approach to the Gnostic current of Late Antiquity within its historical and religious context, including a thorough discussion of the entire preserved Gnostic literature as found in Greek, Latin and Coptic. An essential resource for those researching the history of Late Antiquity and early Christianity.

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"...This is a trustworthy, nuanced guide to recent scholarship.... Recommended..."
--S. Young, McHenry County College, CHOICE

Biografía del autor:

Roelof van den Broek is Emeritus Professor of History of Christianity at the University of Utrecht. His books include Studies in Gnosticism and Alexandrian Christianity (1996), Dutch translations, with introductions and notes, of ancient hermetic and Gnostic texts (2006 and 2010), and Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem On the Life and the Passion of Christ: A Coptic Apocryphon (2012). He is co-editor of several books, the most recent being Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, 2 volumes (with Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Antoine Faivre and Jean-Pierre Brach, 2005).

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107031370
• ISBN 13: 9781107031371
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 263