flesh. 5. Although we know little about this area, there are the cult and the community, that is, the worship and the people who nurtured such views. This involves their rites of worship, for we know that they had practices beyond baptism. Rudolph fills out this definition in the portion of his book called Gnosis, citing a series of texts to make the point under each heading (1983, 59–272; also Klauck 2000, 461–99; Markschies 2003, 16–17, has eight elements in his definition that basically subdivide