Zlatko Plese

Poetics of the Gnostic Universe

Narrative and Cosmology in the Apocryphon of John

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Produktbeschreibung

The monograph examines the cosmological section of the "Apocryphon of John," a fully narrated version of the classic Gnostic myth. The author argues that the "Apocryphon"'s 'world hypothesis' is inseparable from the epistemological, theological, and aesthetic debates within contemporary Platonism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 165mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9789004116740
• ISBN-10: 9004116745
• Artikelnr.: 22329505

Autorenporträt

Zlatko Plese, Ph.D. (1996) in Classics, Yale University, is Associate Professor of Graeco-Roman Religion and Early Christianity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published on Plutarch, Middle Platonism, Gnosticism, Coptic literature, and early modern Latin historiography, and is currently working on a critical edition of the seventh volume of Shenoute's Discourses.