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Attilio Mastrocinque
From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism
[Von der jüdischen Magie zur Gnosis.]
2005. XV, 244 pages. including VAT
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Attilio Mastrocinque examines the intriguing link between magic and Gnosticism. There were two main reasons why Christian thinkers identified Gnosticism with magic: the fact that the roots of Gnosticism lay in the Hellenistic Judaism influenced by the Chaldeans and the Magi, and the need felt by orthodox Christians to distinguish themselves from Christian Gnostics by proving that the latter were magicians.