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This introduction to Gnosis by Christoph Markschies combines great clarity with immense learning. In his Introduction, Markschies defines the term Gnosis and its relationship to ‘Gnosticism’, indicating why Gnosis is preferable and sketches out the main problems. He then treats the sources, both those in the church fathers and heresiologists, and the more recent Nag Hammadi finds. He goes on to...

importance for the life of the pious: ‘To know you is perfect righteousness, and to know your power is the root of immortality’ (Wisd. 15:3). This verse seeks to make it clear that the knowledge of God allows right political action and is even a help beyond death. We get a comparable impression of the significance of ‘knowledge’ if we look for the Hebrew and Aramaic equivalents of the Greek term ‘gnosis’ in the writings of the Qumran community by the Dead Sea; while this represents a particular tendency
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