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Gnosis

the nature and history of gnosticism

Also known as Die Gnosis

by Kurt Rudolph & Robert McLachlan Wilson

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Languages: English, German
  • Content type: Fiction

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Our knowledge and understanding of any historical phenomenon on is dependent to a quite considerable extent upon the state of our sources, be they written, oral, archaeological or of some other kind.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

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

  • Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity

    Controlled discovery queries from libris, national-library-of-scotland, and openlibrary matched “Gnosticism”. Retained metadata contains “Gnosticism” in the subtitle, “Gnosticism” in the subject metadata, and “Gnosticism” in the edition subtitle.

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    • “Gnosticism”· via National Library of Scotland
    • “Gnosticism”· via Open Library
    • “Gnosticism”· in subtitle
    • “Gnosticism”· in subject
    • “Gnosticism”· in edition subtitle

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Editions

Open Library reports 11 editions; 3 cataloged here.

the nature and history of Gnosticism

Libris bibliographic record

1987—English
  • 9780060670184
  • 0060670185
Catalog record

the nature and history of an ancient religion

National Bibliography of Scotland record

22cm; Bibliography: p391-404. - Includes index; ill(some col.); xii,411p, folded leaf of plates

1983T. & T. ClarkEnglish, German
  • 0567093328
Catalog record

the nature and history of gnosticism

Open Library record

1983Harper & RowEnglish, German
  • 9780060670177
  • 0060670177
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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 11 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL1422619W
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