Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking : Rethinking Sethianism in Light of of the Ophite Evidence (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies)

Examining the mythology in and social reality behind a group of texts rewriting Genesis, to which certain leaders of the early church occasionally attached the label 'Ophite,' this book offers a new understanding of Sethianism and the origins of Gnosticism.