Artículo
Eve, the Serpent, and the Instructor Beast Androgyny and Revelation in Gnostic Texts
Fecha de publicación:
11/2023
Editorial:
Brill Academic Publishers
Revista:
Gnosis
ISSN:
2451-8581
e-ISSN:
2451-859X
Idioma:
Inglés
Tipo de recurso:
Artículo publicado
Clasificación temática:
Resumen
The present study will focus on a distinctive relationship found in Gnostic mythologems that associates androgyny and revelation. In fact, this connection is present at any of the three levels in which Sethian Gnostic authors structure their cosmology (spiritual, psychic, and material), but it is not usually explicit. In this work, I will center my research on the manifestation of androgyny in the psychic and material levels, with special attention to the latter. My objective is to demonstrate that by taking elements from Christian, Jewish, and Platonic traditions, Gnostic authors give them a new meaning, creating performative myths that construct a new reality. Mental images of an androgynous monster, of an instructive beast that breaks the categories of social normativity, and through which initiates focus their desire and actualize it through gnosis.
Palabras clave:
ANDROGYNY
,
EVE
,
REVELATION
,
SERPENT
,
SETHIANISM
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Articulos(SEDE CENTRAL)
Articulos de SEDE CENTRAL
Articulos de SEDE CENTRAL
Citación
Troiano, Mariano Alejandro; Eve, the Serpent, and the Instructor Beast Androgyny and Revelation in Gnostic Texts; Brill Academic Publishers; Gnosis; 8; 2; 11-2023; 192-209
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