Poetics of the Gnostic Universe
Narrative and Cosmology in the Apocryphon of John
The monograph examines the cosmological section of the Apocryphon of John, a fully narrated version of the classic Gnostic myth. The author argues that the Apocryphon’s ‘world hypothesis’ is inseparable from the epistemological, theological, and aesthetic debates within contemporary Platonism.
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