Sethian Crowns, Sethian Martyrs? Jewish Apocalypses and Christian Martyrs in a Gnostic Literary Tradition
The predominant image of the crown is among the most baffling features of several, difficult Gnostic apocalypses, recensions of which we know to have been controversial in the school of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (ca. 263 c.e.). In these “Sethian” apocalypses, recovered from Nag Hammadi (U...
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Brill
2014
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Year: 2014, Volume: 61, Issue: 5/6, Pages: 552-568 |
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Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism
Neoplatonism
apocalypses
Jewish mysticism
persecution and martyrdom
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