| Preface |
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| Introduction |
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1 | (6) |
| Chapter One. Narrative and Composition |
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7 | (67) |
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The Frame Narrative: Authorship and Narrative Voices |
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7 | (13) |
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20 | (23) |
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20 | (5) |
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John's Vision: Form and Content |
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25 | (18) |
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The Revelatory Monologue: Narrative Structure, Plot, Voices |
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43 | (31) |
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Dispositio: What Is What Has Come to Be What Will Come to Pass |
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43 | (4) |
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Plot: The Logic of the Savior's Narrative |
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47 | (20) |
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Dissonant Voices, Consonant Models: Plato, Moses, and Dame Wisdom |
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67 | (7) |
| Chapter Two. The Realm of Being |
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74 | (65) |
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74 | (17) |
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Praising Oneness: A Literary Analysis |
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74 | (8) |
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The God without Qualities |
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82 | (9) |
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91 | (48) |
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Formation of the Spiritual Realm |
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91 | (16) |
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The Language of Procession in the Apocgphon of John |
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107 | (32) |
| Chapter Three. The Realm of Becoming |
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139 | (128) |
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Sophia "Our Sister" (Prov 7:4) |
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139 | (21) |
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139 | (3) |
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142 | (6) |
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Sophia's Motivation: The Soul "in Travail of Birth" |
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148 | (12) |
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Cosmogony, Part One: The 'Gnostic' Demiurge |
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160 | (62) |
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Ialdabaoth in the Luminous Cloud |
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161 | (10) |
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171 | (7) |
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178 | (22) |
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200 | (10) |
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Ialdabaoth the Jealous God |
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210 | (12) |
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Cosmogony, Part Two: Sophia's Repentance |
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222 | (41) |
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Narrative Function of the Episode |
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222 | (3) |
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Other 'Gnostic' Interpretations of Genesis 1:26 |
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225 | (9) |
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Sophia's Movement and Wisdom Literature |
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234 | (6) |
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Temporal Coordinates of Sophia's Movement: Sophia, Ialdabaoth's Assistant |
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240 | (6) |
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Spatial Coordinates of Sophia's Movement: Metanoia, Its Meaning and Function |
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246 | (17) |
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"What Will Come to Pass"- Diakrisis, or Final Separation |
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263 | (4) |
| Conclusion |
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267 | (9) |
| Bibliography |
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276 | (27) |
| Index locorum |
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303 | (18) |
| Index nominum et rerum potiorum |
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