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Christian speculation", while German and
American scholarship views it as "a distinctly inner-Jewish, albeit syncretistic and heterodox, phenomenon." Roelof van den Broek notes that "Sethianism" may never have been a separate religious movement but that the term rather refers to a set of mythological
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780:(Ch. 30). According to Frederik Wisse, all subsequent accounts appear to be largely dependent on Irenaeus. Hippolytus repeats information from Irenaeus.
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attempts to rape Eve who now contains Sophia's divine power; several texts depict him as failing when Sophia's spirit transplants itself into the
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1707:Broek 2013
1682:Segal 2002
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1488:cataphatic
1420:Five Seals
1265:Zostrianos
1245:Codex XIII
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336:Sethianism
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302:Marcionism
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766:Sethoitae
623:Carl Jung
439:Nusayrism
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309:Nicolaism
287:Cerinthus
257:Simonians
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2174:Donatism
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1387:See also
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1217:Irenaeus
1183:Irenaeus
1096:demiurge
1063:Creation
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989:Theology
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804:Cainites
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576:Docetism
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105:Demiurge
43:a series
41:Part of
2612:Maximón
2231:Ophites
2191:Dualism
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1951:, BRILL
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1111:Archons
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1078:Barbelo
1069:emanate
1027:Genesis
983:Buckley
979:masbuta
935:Audians
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917:Phase 5
907:Phase 4
901:Phase 3
875:Phase 2
861:Barbelo
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755:History
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331:Ophites
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297:Marcion
282:Apelles
268:Quqites
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145:Pleroma
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