Gnosticism and Christianity in Roman and Coptic Egypt

Gnosticism and Christianity in Roman and Coptic Egypt

Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Gnosticism
Egypt -- Church history

Birger A. Pearson

New York : T & T Clark International

Series: Studies in antiquity and Christianity.

Part 1. Christianity in Egypt -- Current issues in the study of early Christianity in Egypt -- Christians and Jews in first-century Alexandria -- Ancient Alexandria in the Acts of Mark -- Coptic homily On Riches attributted to St. Peter of Alexandria -- Enoch in Egypt -- Coptic enoch apocryphon -- Part 2. Gnosticism in Egypt -- Gnosticism as a religion -- Gnostic ritual and Iamblichus's treatise On the Myserties of Egypt -- Gnostic iconography -- Figure of Seth in Manichaean literature.

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