The aborted god. Procreation between divinity and matter in the Gnostic exegesis of Jewish and Platonic traditions
The present communication will expose evidence by which the Gnostic texts present an original vision of the platonic demiurge, product of a precise exegesis of sources coming from different literary corpus well known by the authors. For this we will take one of the most controversial subjects presen...
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Centro de Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti
2022
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| Sumario: | The present communication will expose evidence by which the Gnostic texts present an original vision of the platonic demiurge, product of a precise exegesis of sources coming from different literary corpus well known by the authors. For this we will take one of the most controversial subjects present in the Gnostic texts of the Nag Hammadi Collection, the shapeless, strange, aborted god (ϩⲟⲩϩⲉ - On the origin of the world (NH II, 5) 99, 9 and 26, The hypostasis of Archons 87, 28; 94, 15 and Excerpts of Theodotus 68). Our objective is to show that this concept, of great semantic richness for Gnostic authors, is anchored in conceptual interpretations from both, the Jewish tradition (Genesis 6,4, Genesis Rabba 26, 7, 1 Henoch VI, 1-XVI, 4 and the Book of Giants (4Q Book of Giants)) as well as Middle Platonic writings by Plutarch, Atticus, and Numenius. |
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