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subject	book bibliographic info
ogdoad	Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 192, 199, 205 Bremmer (2008), Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East, 5 Dunderberg (2008), Beyond Gnosticism: Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus. 139 Rasimus (2009), Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence, 47, 136, 137, 146, 147, 229, 257 Roskovec and Hušek (2021), Interactions in Interpretation: The Pilgrimage of Meaning through Biblical Texts and Contexts, 47 Thomassen (2023), Before Valentinus: The Gnostics of Irenaeus. 14, 15, 90, 98, 148, 151, 176 Vinzent (2013), Christ's Resurrection in Early Christianity and the Making of the New Testament, 48, 104, 139, 222, 224 Williams (2009), Williams, The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis: Book I: (Sects 1-46), 165, 168, 169, 172, 177, 178, 188, 208, 213, 214, 236, 238, 242, 244, 246, 252, 253, 256, 258, 284 Černušková, Kovacs and Plátová (2016), Clement’s Biblical Exegesis: Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria , 84, 286, 288
ogdoad, demiurge, source of an	Williams (2009), Williams, The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis: Book I: (Sects 1-46), 169
ogdoad, life	Rasimus (2009), Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence, 136, 137, 138, 146, 147, 148
ogdoad, sabaoth/demiurge	Williams (2009), Williams, The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis: Book I: (Sects 1-46), 188, 242
ogdoade	Scopello (2008), The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas, 272, 273, 275
ogdoade, cosmology, of the gnostic world	Scopello (2008), The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas, 272, 273

List of validated texts:

3 validated results for "ogdoad"

1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 1.2 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Life, Ogdoad • Ogdoad

Found in books: Bremmer (2008), Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East, 5; Rasimus (2009), Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence, 136

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1.2 וְהָאָרֶץ הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ וְחֹשֶׁךְ עַל־פְּנֵי תְהוֹם וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים מְרַחֶפֶת עַל־פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם׃^1.2 וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים יִשְׁרְצוּ הַמַּיִם שֶׁרֶץ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה וְעוֹף יְעוֹפֵף עַל־הָאָרֶץ עַל־פְּנֵי רְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמָיִם׃ ' None

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1.2 Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.'' None

2. Irenaeus, Refutation of All Heresies, 1.30.4, 1.30.13 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Ogdoad

Found in books: Rasimus (2009), Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence, 47, 229; Thomassen (2023), Before Valentinus: The Gnostics of Irenaeus. 15, 151

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1.30.4 They declare, moreover, that her son had also himself a certain breath of incorruption left him by his mother, and that through means of it he works; and becoming powerful, he himself, as they affirm, also sent forth from the waters a son without a mother; for they do not allow him either to have known a mother. His son, again, after the example of his father, sent forth another son. This third one, too, generated a fourth; the fourth also generated a son: they maintain that again a son was generated by the fifth; and the sixth, too, generated a seventh. Thus was the Hebdomad, according to them, completed, the mother possessing the eighth place; and as in the case of their generations, so also in regard to dignities and powers, they precede each other in turn. ^1.30.13 They affirm that many of his disciples were not aware of the descent of Christ into him; but that, when Christ did descend on Jesus, he then began to work miracles, and heal, and announce the unknown Father, and openly to confess himself the son of the first man. The powers and the father of Jesus were angry at these proceedings, and laboured to destroy him; and when he was being led away for this purpose, they say that Christ himself, along with Sophia, departed from him into the state of an incorruptible AEon, while Jesus was crucified. Christ, however, was not forgetful of his Jesus, but sent down a certain energy into him from above, which raised him up again in the body, which they call both animal and spiritual; for he sent the mundane parts back again into the world. When his disciples saw that he had risen, they did not recognise him--no, not even Jesus himself, by whom he rose again from the dead. And they assert that this very great error prevailed among his disciples, that they imagined he had risen in a mundane body, not knowing that "flesh and blood do not attain to the kingdom of God."'' None

3. None, None, nan (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Life, Ogdoad • Ogdoad

Found in books: Rasimus (2009), Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence, 146; Thomassen (2023), Before Valentinus: The Gnostics of Irenaeus. 148

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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