The Status of Women and Gnosticism in Irenaeus and Tertullian

by Daniel L. Hoffman

This study explores each facet of Elaine Pagels' theory regarding a positive correlation between the active female deities of Gnostic cosmologies and the actual status of women in Gnostic groups in the 2nd and early-3rd centuries.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773489967
• ISBN13: 9780773489967
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 239 Pages