num_pages: 244
description: Attilio Mastrocinque examines the intriguing link between magic and Gnosticism. There were two main reasons why Christian thinkers identified Gnosticism with the fact that the roots of Gnosticism lay in the Hellenistic Judaism influenced by the Chaldeans and the Magi, and the need felt by orthodox Christians to distinguish themselves from Christian Gnostics by proving that the latter were magicians.
language: English
title: From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism
titlecomplete: From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism (Studien Und Texte Zu Antike Und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Coronet Books Inc.