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262 REVIEW OF BOOKS Michael Allen WILLIAMS, The Immovable Race. A Gnostic Designation and the Theme of Stability in Late Antiquity (Nag Hammadi Studies, 29), Brill, Leiden 1985, XII and 239 pp., cloth, Dfl 76,-. Gedaliahu A.G. STROUMSA, Another Seed: Studies in Gnostic Mythology (Nag Hammadi Studies, 24), Brill, Leiden 1984, XII and 195 pp., cloth Dfl 64,-. M.A. WILLIAMS' book represents a revised version of a Harvard disser- tation (1977), mentioned by STROUMSA in his own Harvard dissertation (1978), revised by 1982, in print by 1984, one year before WILLIAMS' book. WILLIAMS is concerned with the Platonic background, STROUMSA with the Jewish background of gnostic myth. Both are doing a good job, which is not a mere repetition of what was already known forty years ago. WILLIAMS' book is a well documented and precise study of late antique terminology concerning immobility and stability as attributes of gods and characters representing either the best potentialities of the human race, or the traits of transcendence. In gnostic texts, the expression "immovable race" refers to Seth and his posterity. Here we come to the topic of STROUMSA'S book. STROUMSA undertakes a new analysis of the evidence concerning Seth in gnostic
Journal for the Study of Judaism – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1987
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