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The Gnostic Imagination

, 1995
This text provides a study of the relationship between Gnosticism and Merkabah mysticism. It includes an analysis of Gershom Scholem's views on the subject, an analytical survey of other secondary literature and a focused examination of primary sources ...
Nathaniel Deutsch
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Simon Magus: The First Gnostic?

, 2003
This latest comprehensive work on Simon Magus lends new impetus to the investigation of Early Christianity and questions surrounding the origin and nature of Gnosticism.
Stephen Haar
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Free Will and Divine Sovereignty in Eusebius of Emesa: A Fourth-Century Antiochene Homily Against Determinism

Religions
This study examines Eusebius of Emesa’s De arbitrio, voluntate Pauli et Domini passione (Homily I), a fourth-century homily rediscovered in the twentieth century, to elucidate its contribution to the theological debate on free will within early ...
J. Cebrian
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Simon of Samaria and the Simonians

Who were the Simonians? Beginning in the mid-second century CE, heresiologists depicted them as licentious followers of the first “gnostic,” a supposedly Samarian self-deifier called Simon, who was thought to practice “magic” and became known as the ...
David Litwa
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Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam: Qur'an, Exegesis, Messianism and the Literary Origins of the Babi Religion

, 2011
Todd Lawson
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Inner-Biblical Allusion in Malachi: Jonathan Gibson, Covenant Continuity and Fidelity: A Study of Inner-Biblical Allusion and Exegesis in Malachi

, 2017
Richard A. Taylor
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The Seduction of Eve and the Trees of Paradise—A Note on a Gnostic Myth

Harvard Theological Review, 1978
S. Gero
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Coin-Operated Doors and God: A Gnostic Reading of Philip K. Dick's Ubik

, 2015
Lee Braver
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Gnostic Religion in Antiquity by Roelof van den Broek (review)

, 2015
D. Burns
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Practicing “Repentance” on the Path to Gnosis in Exegesis on the Soul

, 2013
M. Scopello
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