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Graham Gould, Gnosticism and Christianity in Roman and Coptic Egypt. By Birger A. Pearson. Pp. xvi + 302. (Studies in Antiquity and Christianity.) New York and London: T. & T. Clark International (a Continuum imprint), 2004. isbn 0 567 02610 8. Paper £20, The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 57, Issue 1, April 2006, Page 419, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flj032
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This is the second collection of Professor Pearson's articles to appear in this series, which emanates from the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity of the Claremont Graduate School (cf. Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity, 1990). Nine previously published but revised papers are preceded by a new review of research on the origins of Egyptian Christianity and a useful listing of the sources, orthodox and gnostic, which are attributable to second and third-century Egypt. Two of the revised papers are devoted to the Enoch literature and its influence in Coptic Christianity; the others concern the figure of Seth in Manichaeism, Gnostic iconography, Gnostic ritual and Iamblichus’ defence of theurgy, a Coptic homily attributed to Peter of Alexandria, the topography of Jewish and Christian Alexandria, varieties of Alexandrian Jewish Christianity, and the validity (defended by Pearson) of ‘Gnosticism’ as a term for a religious tradition.