Pubblicazioni

Autori:

Mastrocinque, Attilio

Titolo:

From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism

Anno:

2005

Tipologia prodotto:

Monografia o trattato scientifico

Tipologia ANVUR:

Monografia o trattato scientifico

Lingua:

Inglese

Formato:

A Stampa

Casa editrice:

Mohr Siebeck

ISBN:

9783161485558

Parole chiave:

Religioni dell'impero romano; Gnosticismo; magia

Breve descrizione dei contenuti:

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.

Id prodotto:

22318

Handle IRIS:

11562/302094

depositato il:

13 marzo 2012

ultima modifica:

1 novembre 2022

Citazione bibliografica:

Mastrocinque, Attilio, From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism , Mohr Siebeck , 2005

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