Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 68 1st Edition by Tuomas Rasimus 9789004173231 9004173234

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ISBN 10: 9004173234

ISBN 13: 9789004173231

Author: Tuomas Rasimus

Examining the mythology in and social reality behind a group of texts rewriting Genesis, to which certain leaders of the early church occasionally attached the label ‘Ophite,’ this book offers a new understanding of Sethianism and the origins of Gnosticism.

Table of contents:

Part I: Introduction

• Chapter One: Rethinking Sethianism

Part II: Myth and Innovation

• Chapter Two: The Serpent

• Chapter Three: The Creator and the Archons

• Chapter Four: Sophia, Eve and Gnosis

• Chapter Five: Adam and Christ

• Chapter Six: The Pillars of Seth: Sethianization of Ophite and Barbeloite Myths

Part III: Ritual

• Chapter Seven: Evidence for Ophite Snake Worship

• Chapter Eight: Anathema Iesous: Origen on the Ophite Cursing of Jesus

• Chapter Nine: The Ophite Seal, Sethian Baptism and the Johannine Prologue

Part IV: Conclusion

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