1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460105003321

Autore

Rasimus Tuomas

Titolo

Paradise reconsidered in Gnostic mythmaking [[electronic resource] ] : rethinking Sethianism in light of the Ophite evidence / / by Tuomas Rasimus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009

ISBN

1-282-94950-0

9786612949500

90-474-2670-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Collana

Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, , 0929-2470 ; ; v. 68

Disciplina

273/.1

Soggetti

Sethians

Ophites

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Helsinki and Université Laval, 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Introduction. Rethinking Sethianism -- pt. II. Myth and innovation. The serpent -- The creator and the Archons -- Sophia, Eve and gnosis -- Adam and Christ -- The pillars of Seth : Sethianization of Ophite and Barbeloite myths -- pt. III. Ritual. Evidence for Ophite snake worship -- Anathema Iesous : Origen on the Ophite cursing of Jesus -- The Ophite seal, Sethian baptism and the Johannine prologue.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a new understanding of Sethianism and the origins of Gnosticism by examining the mythology in and social reality behind a group of texts to which certain leaders of the early church occasionally attached the label ‘Ophite.’ In the unique Ophite mythology, which rewrites the Genesis paradise story and is attested, for example, in Irenaeus’ Adversus haereses 1.30, The Apocryphon of John and On the Origin of the World , the snake’s advice to eat of the tree of knowledge is considered positive, the creator and his angels are turned into demonic beasts and the true Godhead is presented as an androgynous heavenly projection of Adam and Eve. It is argued that Hans-Martin Schenke’s influential model of the ‘Sethian system’ only reveals part of



a larger whole to which the Ophite material belongs as an important and organic component.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003572279707536

Autore

Pizzani, Ubaldo

Titolo

I Monstra nell'inferno dantesco : tradizione e simbologie / Ubaldo Pizzani ; atti del 33 convegno storico internazionale. Todi : 13-16 ottobre 1996

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Spoleto : Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo, 1997

ISBN

887988400X

Descrizione fisica

x, 288 p. ; 24 cm.

Soggetti

Inferno

Monstra

Alighieri, Dante

Alighieri, Dante

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In testa al front.: Centro italiano di studi sul basso Medioevo. Accademia tubertina. Centro di studi sulla spiritualità medievale dell'Università degli studi di Perugia