001478917 000__ 04522nam\a22008175i\4500 001478917 001__ 1478917 001478917 003__ DE-B1597 001478917 005__ 20231026035003.0 001478917 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478917 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478917 008__ 221201t20122012mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478917 019__ $$a(OCoLC)1302163229 001478917 020__ $$a9780674058897 001478917 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674058897$$2doi 001478917 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)585467 001478917 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1301548644 001478917 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478917 0410_ $$aeng 001478917 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478917 072_7 $$aREL112000$$2bisacsh 001478917 08204 $$a273.1$$223 001478917 1001_ $$aBrakke, David, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478917 24514 $$aThe Gnostics :$$bMyth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity /$$cDavid Brakke. 001478917 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2012] 001478917 264_4 $$c©2012 001478917 300__ $$a1 online resource (180 p.) 001478917 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478917 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478917 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478917 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478917 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tCONTENTS -- $$tPREFACE -- $$tABBREVIATIONS -- $$t1 IMAGINING "GNOSTICISM" AND EARLY CHRISTIANITIES -- $$t2 IDENTIFYING THE GNOSTICS AND THEIR LITERATURE -- $$t3 THE MYTH AND RITUA L S O F THE GNOSTIC SCHOOL OF THOUGHT -- $$t4 UNITY AND DIVERSITY IN SECOND- CENTURY ROME -- $$t5 STRATEGIES OF SELF - DIFFERENTIATION -- $$tNOTES -- $$tSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY SOURCES IN TRANSLATION -- $$tINDEX 001478917 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478917 520__ $$aBrakke writes a pioneering study of the way the demon role relates to religious thinking and to cultural anxieties. The author's sources include biographies of exceptional monks, collections of monastic sayings and stories, letters from ascetic teachers to their disciples, sermons, community rules, and biblical commentaries. When monks imagined the resistance that they had to overcome in cultivating their selves or the temptation that offered an easier path, they saw supernatural beings that could take the shapes of animals, women, boys, and false angels in their attempts to seduce monks away from their devotion to God. And when they considered the inclinations in their own selves that opposed their best intentions, they concluded that demons introduced such problematic "thoughts" to their minds. Although the last twenty years has seen an explosion of scholarship on early Christian asceticism, producing brilliant explorations of the body, sexual renunciation, fasting, and gender, combat with demons has been left relatively unexplored. 001478917 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478917 546__ $$aIn English. 001478917 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) 001478917 650_0 $$aChurch history$$yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600. 001478917 650_0 $$aGnosticism. 001478917 650_7 $$aRELIGION / Gnosticism.$$2bisacsh 001478917 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001478917 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999$$z9783110442212 001478917 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110442205 001478917 852__ $$bebk 001478917 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674058897$$zOnline Access 001478917 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1478917$$pGLOBAL_SET 001478917 912__ $$a978-3-11-044220-5 Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001478917 912__ $$a978-3-11-044221-2 HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999$$c1893$$d1999 001478917 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001478917 912__ $$aEBA_CL_PLTLJSIS 001478917 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001478917 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001478917 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_PLTLJSIS 001478917 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001478917 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001478917 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001478917 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001478917 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001478917 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001478917 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001478917 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001478917 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001478917 980__ $$aBIB 001478917 980__ $$aEBOOK 001478917 982__ $$aEbook 001478917 983__ $$aOnline