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From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism

Posted By: insetes
Date: 31 Oct 2018 18:13:14
From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism

From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism By Attilio Mastrocinque
2005 | 133 Pages | ISBN: 3161485556 | PDF | 73 MB


Attilio Mastrocinque examines the intriquing link between magic and Gnosticism. There were two main reasons why Christian thinkers identified Gnosticism with magic: the fact that the roots of Gnosticisim lay in the Hellenistic Judaism influenced by the Chaldeans and the Magi, and the need felt by orthodox Christians to distinguish themselves from Christian Gnostics by proving that the latter were magicians.
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