Apocalypse of the alien god : Platonism and the exile of Sethian gnosticism /

Apocalypse of the alien god : Platonism and the exile of Sethian gnosticism /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Burns, Dylan M., author.
Imprint:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
Description:	xvii, 321 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Divinations : rereading late ancient religion Divinations.
Subject:	Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism. Gnostic literature -- History and criticism. Gnosticism. Neoplatonism. Apocalyptic literature. Gnostic literature. Gnosticism. Neoplatonism. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9914034

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ISBN:	9780812245790 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0812245792 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Culture Wars
2. Plotinus Against His Gnostic Friends
3. Other Ways of Writing
4. The Descent
5. The Ascent
6. The Crown
7. Between Judaism, Christianity, and Neoplatonism
Appendix: Reading Porphyry on the Gnostic Heretics and Their Apocalypses
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments