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Introduction to "Gnosticism": Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds

Autor Nicola Denzey Lewis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 feb 2013
Discovered in Egypt in 1945, the fascinating and challenging Nag Hammadi writings forever changed our understanding of early Christianity. State-of-the-art and the only volume of its kind, Introduction to "Gnosticism": Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds guides students through the most significant of the Nag Hammadi texts. Employing an exceptionally lucid and accessible writing style, Nicola Denzey Lewis groups the texts by theme and genre, places them in the broader context of the ancient world, and reveals their most inscrutable mysteries.Ideal for use in courses in Early Christianity/Origins of Christianity, Christianity to 1500, Gnostic Gospels, Gnosticism, Early Christian Writings, Orthodoxy and Heresy, and New Testament Studies, Introduction to "Gnosticism" is enhanced by numerous pedagogical features, including images of the manuscripts, study and discussion questions, annotated bibliographies, tables, diagrams, and a glossary.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199755318
ISBN-10: 0199755310
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 188 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Beginners and advanced scholars alike will enjoy and learn from the book, which can be used as a textbook for students, a reference work, or simply as an enjoyable discovery of a developing and fas cinating subject.
This textbook provides the reader with an excellent guide to the Nag Hammadi text and their world.
It clearly and gracefully fills a longstanding gap in the field...highly recommended.

Notă biografică

Nicola Denzey Lewis is an award-winning teacher who has taught Gnosticism for fifteen years at Bowdoin College, Dartmouth University, and Harvard University. An internationally recognized expert in Gnosticism, she is the author of two books and numerous articles on various aspects of Nag Hammadi. She is currently Visiting Associate Professor in Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean in the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University.