Author : Zlatko Pleše
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047404025
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Poetics of the Gnostic Universe by : Zlatko Pleše
Download or read book Poetics of the Gnostic Universe written by Zlatko Pleše and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monograph examines the cosmological section of the Apocryphon of John, a fully narrated version of the classic Gnostic myth. The author argues that the Apocryphon’s ‘world hypothesis’ is inseparable from the epistemological, theological, and aesthetic debates within contemporary Platonism.