Poetics of the Gnostic Universe: Narrative and Cosmology in the Apocryphon of John

by Zlatko Pleše

This volume is both an essay in Gnostic poetics and a study in the history of early Christian appropriation of ancient philosophy. The object of study is the cosmological model of the Apocryphon of John, a first-hand and fully narrated version of the Gnostic myth.
The author examines his target text against a complex background of religious and philosophical systems, literary theories, and rhetorical techniques of the period, and argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004116745
• ISBN13: 9789004116740
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.7"