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NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
LA110837
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
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انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
The Coming of the Star-Child:
General Material Designation
[Article]
Other Title Information
The Reception of the Revelation of the Magi in New Age Religious Thought and Ufology
First Statement of Responsibility
Brent Landau
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The Revelation of the Magi is the longest and most complex ancient Christian apocryphal writing devoted to the Magi. In this paper, after discussing the basic issues surrounding the interpretation of this text, I explore the popular reception of the text after my publication of it in 2010. This popular reception has been dominated by New Age and ufological (that is, the theorizing of unidentified flying objects) interpretative perspectives. Rather than viewing these interpretations as anachronistic, the paper argues that they may have far more in common with the circumstances that gave rise to the Revelation of the Magi than might initially be supposed. Ultimately, the Revelation of the Magi can be profitably characterized as a "gnostic" text-despite its lack of a demiurge-because of its strongly countercultural religious outlook, an outlook it shares with much New Age religious thought.
SET
Date of Publication
2016
Physical description
196-217
Title
Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies
Volume Number
1/1-2
International Standard Serial Number
2451-859X
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Biblical Studies
Subject Term
Gnosticism & Manichaeism
Subject Term
reception theory
Subject Term
Revelation of the Magi
Subject Term
ufology
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Brent Landau
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
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10.1163/2451859X-12340011
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