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Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity

by Ismo Dunderberg, Outi Lehtipuu, Ivan Miroshnikov & Ulla Tervahauta

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  • 21st century
  • Language: English

Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity offers a collection of essays that deal with perceptions of wisdom, femaleness, and their interconnections in a wide range of ancient sources, including papyri, Nag Hammadi documents, heresiological accounts and monastic literature. Readership: Scholars of early Christianity, ancient history and philosophy and anyone interested in questions pertaining to how gender and the role of women were perceived in late Antiquity.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity.

  • Controlled discovery queries from oapen matched “Gnosticism”. Retained metadata contains “nag hammadi” in the description.

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    • nag hammadi· in description

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2017BrillEnglish
  • 9789004344938
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