... contexts. The initial three figures have, in the history of interpretation, been demonized as cosmic rebels. They include the primal human in Ezekiel 28, Lucifer (or Helel) in Isaiah 14, and Yaldabaoth in gnostic mythology. By contrast, the final three figures have served as heroes and positive models...

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...In one of the ironies of mythic history, Yahweh himself became guilty of self-deification. In the book of Isaiah, the Jewish deity declares: “I am God and there is no other!” (46:9). In gnostic sources, this declaration becomes the mantra of the foolish creator, Yaldabaoth. This chapter examines...

...; Jutta Leonhardt- Balzer, Yaldabaoth und seine Bande. Die Gegner im Johannesapokryphon, in Dualismus, Dämonologie und diabolische Figuren: Religionshistorische Beobachtungen und theologische Reflexionen, ed. Jörg Frey and Enno Edzard Popkes (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018), 351 6 6. 9 See, e.g., Ap...