The Tree of life and the Tree of death: A study of Gnostic symbols

Keywords

Symbol (formal), Tree of life (biology), Tree (set theory), Generative grammar, Genealogy

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• Constructions of Gender in Late Antique Manichaean Cosmological NarrativeSusanna Towers — 2019
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