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Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Dylan M. Burns
Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Dylan M. Burns
Apocalypse of the Alien God shows that the fundamental break between the Platonic tradition and Judeo-Christianity began when the mystic Plotinus rejected the teachings of the Sethians, an influential group of Gnostics who operated at the intersection of Hellenic, Jewish, and Christian thought.
344 pages, 4 illus.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | February 19, 2014 |
ISBN13 | 9780812245790 |
Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 344 |
Dimensions | 230 × 164 × 26 mm · 624 g |
Language | English |
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