The Gnostic Rewriting of the Story about the Sons of God and Daughters of Men (Gen 6:1-4) in the Apocryphon of John (BG 2 p. 73,18-75,10 and parr.)

Abstract

The article deals with the Gnostic interpretation of a story mentioned in the Bible only briefly, but an elaborated version of which we have in the pseudoepigraphical Jewish writings.

Keywords

• Gen 6:1–4
• Apocryphon of John
• Genesis
• 1 Enoch
• Sons of God
• Gnosticism
• Coptic studies
• Nag Hammadi
• Early Christianity
• Religious studies