TY - BOOK AU - Brakke,David TI - The Gnostics :myth, ritual, and diversity in early Christianity SN - 9780674046849 AV - BT1390 .B69 2010 U1 - 273/.1 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Press KW - Gnosticism KW - Church history KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Imagining "Gnosticism" and early Christianities -- Identifying the Gnostics and their literature -- The myth and rituals of the Gnostic school of thought -- Unity and diversity in second-century Rome -- Strategies of self-differentiation ER -