| Author: | Charles M. Stang | ISBN: | 9780674970182 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press | Publication: | March 7, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Charles M. Stang |
| ISBN: | 9780674970182 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication: | March 7, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Language: | English |
What if you were to discover that you were only one half of a whole—that you had a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, Charles Stang shows, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, offering a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms down to the present.
What if you were to discover that you were only one half of a whole—that you had a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, Charles Stang shows, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, offering a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms down to the present.
