Author: Daniel L. Hoffman
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773489967
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This study explores each facet of Elaine Pagels' theory regarding a positive correlation between the active female deities of Gnostic cosmologies and the actual status of women in Gnostic groups in the 2nd and early-3rd centuries.