Tag: Gnosticism

  • Jewish Origins of Gnosticism

    Euangelion: Jewish Origins of Gnosticism I am becoming increasingly convinced that Gnosticism had a Jewish origin. After the Jewish revolts against Rome in 66-70 and 132-35 AD, Judaism went in one of two directions. Rabbinic Judaism that tried to compensate for the absence of the temple and expulsion from the land through a very manufactured…