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Dictionary Of Gnosticism

by Andrew Phillip Smith

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Fiction

A DICTIONARY OF GNOSTICISM is a scholarly yet accessible guide that covers the people, mythology, movements, scripture and technical terms related to this pre-Christian Western religion. It contains nearly 1700 entries, from Aachiaram, an angel in the 'Secret Book of John to Zostrianos', a third-century Gnostic text and is a reliable reference for the Nag Hammadi library and other Gnostic texts. A[Bokinfo]

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity.

  • Controlled discovery queries from libris matched “Gnosticism”. Retained metadata contains “Gnosticism” in the title, “gnostic” in the description, “Gnosticism” in the description, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • Gnosticism· via Libris, National Library of Sweden
    • Gnosticism· in title
    • gnostic· in description
    • Gnosticism· in description
    • nag hammadi· in description
    • Gnosticism· in edition title

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23 cm; 296 sidor

2009Quest BooksEnglish
  • 9780835608695
  • 0835608697
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