Item #58100 Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion); (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion). Dylan M. BURNS.

Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion); (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xviii + 322pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board, endnotes, bibliography and index. From the publisher: "Burns proposes a radical interpretation of long-lost apocalypses, placing them firmly in the context of Judeo-Christian authorship rather than ascribing them to a pagan offshoot of Gnosticism. According to Burns, this Sethian literature emerged along the fault lines between Judaism and Christianity, drew on traditions known to scholars from the Dead Sea Scrolls and Enochic texts, and ultimately catalyzed the rivalry of Platonism with Christianity. Plunging the reader into the culture wars and classrooms of the high Empire, Apocalypse of the Alien God offers the most concrete social and historical description available of any group of Gnostic Christians as it explores the intersections of ancient Judaism, Christianity, Hellenism, myth, and philosophy." A lovely clean near Fine copy in lightly rubbed VG+ dust jacket. Item #58100
ISBN: 9780812245790

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