- Authors:
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Mastrocinque, Attilio
- Title:
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From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism
- Year:
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2005
- Type of item:
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Monografia o trattato scientifico
- Tipologia ANVUR:
- Monografia o trattato scientifico
- Language:
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Inglese
- Format:
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A Stampa
- Publisher:
- Mohr Siebeck
- ISBN:
- 9783161485558
- Keyword:
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Religioni dell'impero romano; Gnosticismo; magia
- Short description of contents:
- the author examines the intriguing connection between magic and Gnosticism. Both Christian Gnostics and other heirs to Hellenistic Jewish Gnosis were committed to the study of astrology and what were known as magic arts and doctrines. Heretical Jews in Egypt envisaged the creator god as a snake producing the Nile flood and destroying the giants; in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC the Jews of the Leontopolite temple believed in the manifestation of God as a divine lion-headed man, a young god, a Son of God, whose name was Jaldabaoth. In the 2nd cent. CE the Christians condemned these two heretical figures and developed new forms of Gnosis, which were described and again condemned by orthodox Christian heresiologists. The orthodox Christian Church came to identify the religion of the Gnostics with magic, and even now our concept of magic is strongly influenced by ancient Christian ideology concerning Gnosis.
- Product ID:
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22318
- Handle IRIS:
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11562/302094
- Deposited On:
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March 13, 2012
- Last Modified:
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November 1, 2022
- Bibliographic citation:
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Mastrocinque, Attilio,
From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism
, Mohr Siebeck
, 2005
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