The Construction of Heresy and the Creation of Identity: Epiphanius of Salamis and His Medicine-Chest against Heretics.

The article is about Epiphanius' use of metaphors in the Panarion to create boundaries between acceptable and non-acceptable religion. The stress is on how the various inventors of so-called heresies were made similar to different species of harmful animals, and how a comparative system of serpents...

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Publicado en:Numen: International Review for the History of Religions Vol. 62; no. 2/3; pp. 152 - 169
Autor principal: Gilhus, Ingvild Sælid
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Publicado: Brill Academic Publishers 2015
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