Hidden Wisdom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism

This book investigates the problem of esoteric traditions in early Christianity, their origin and their transformation in Patristic hermeneutics, in the West as well as in the East. It argues that these traditions eventually formed the basis of nascent Christian mysticism in Late Antiquity. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

About the author

Guy G. Stroumsa, Ph.D. (1978), Harvard, is Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Another Seed: Studies in Gnostic Mythology (Brill, 1984) and of Savoir et salut: traditions juives et tentations dualistes dans le christianisme ancien (Paris, 1972).

Product details

• Authors: Guy Stroumsa
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.1996
• EAN: 9789004105041
• ISBN: 978-90-04-10504-1
• No. of pages: 183
• Dimensions: 169 mm x 247 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 494 g
• Series: Numen Book
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works