Poetics of the Gnostic universe
Subtitle: narrative and cosmology in the Apocryphon of John
By: by Zlatko Pleše.
Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies -- 52
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Apocryphon of John -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Description: This volume is both an essay in Gnostic poetics and a study in the history of early Christian appropriation of ancient philosophy. The object of study is the cosmological model of the Apocryphon of John, a first-hand and fully narrated version of the Gnostic myth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.