An examination of Gnostic religion in Late Antiquity within its historical and religious context, using Greek, Latin and Coptic sources.

Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity. Before it emerged in the second century, passage to the afterlif

This volume introduces what has sometimes been called "the third component of western culture". It traces the historical development of those religious traditio

Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was 'invented', this work focuses on

This book provides significant insights into the rise of early Christianity in Egypt and its impact on Christianity in Palestine.