This week your professor continues a very brief introduction into the early rivals of Christianity. We know of a great many religious cults which existed in ancient times, most of which have vanished ...

This sprawling conspiracy theory traces the influence of ancient Egyptian and gnostic ideologies concerning a dualistic, Manichean cosmos prefiguring the earthly order, knowable only through secret, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article discusses the definition of Ophite Gnosticism, its relationship to Sethian Gnosticism, and argues that Eugnostos, Soph. Jes. Chr.

This paper explores the complex connections between the Platonic and Gnostic currents in Late Antiquity and attempts to explain how these ideas could have been transmitted to later 'Gnostic' groups in ...