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200 10$aParadise reconsidered in Gnostic mythmaking$b[electronic resource] $erethinking Sethianism in light of the Ophite evidence /$fby Tuomas Rasimus
210   $aLeiden ;$aBoston $cBrill$d2009
215   $a1 online resource (400 p.)
225 1 $aNag Hammadi and Manichaean studies,$x0929-2470 ;$vv. 68
300   $aRevision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Helsinki and Universite? Laval, 2006.
311   $a90-04-17323-4 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
327   $apt. 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.
330   $aThis 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.
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