by Karen L King (Author)
Karen King shows how historians have been misled by ancient Christian polemimicists who attacked Gnostic beliefs as a "dark double" against which the new faith could define itself. Having identified past distortions, she is able to offer a clarifying definition of Gnosticism.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 366
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 06 May 2005
ISBN 10: 0674017625
ISBN 13: 9780674017627