| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Narcissus and his double -- Reading Plato's many doubles -- Thomas, who is called "twin" -- Syzygies, twins, and mirrors -- Mani and his twin-companion -- Plotinus and the doubled intellect -- Whither the divine double? |
| Summary |
What if you were to discover that you were not entirely you, but rather one half of a whole, that you had, in other words, a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, providing a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms throughout the centuries, down to the present. Our Divine Double traces the rise of this ancient idea that each person has a divine counterpart, twin, or alter-ego, and the eventual eclipse of this idea with the rise of Christian conciliar orthodoxy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Self (Philosophy) -- Middle East.
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Self (Philosophy) |
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Middle East. |
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Twins -- Mythology -- Middle East.
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Twins -- Mythology. |
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Twins -- Religious aspects.
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Twins -- Religious aspects. |
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Mysticism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Ancient. |
| Chronological Term |
30-600 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stang, Charles M., 1974- Our divine double 9780674287198 (DLC) 2015030865 (OCoLC)922970671 |
| ISBN |
9780674970168 (electronic book) |
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0674970160 (electronic book) |
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9780674287198 |
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0674287193 |
| Standard No. |
10.4159/9780674970168 |
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