Gnostic Interpretation of the Jewish Law: Ptolemy's Letter to Flora
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I am guessing that most of you have never heard of the Valentinians, Ptolemy, and his letter to Flora. To be brief. (1) The Valentians were either a Gnostic group or a group that drew on Gnostic ideas in the second century. (2) Ptolemy was a Valentinian teacher in Rome ca. 150. (3) Flora had some questions about the Jewish Law, in sum, why do we obey some bits and not others, which Ptolemy tries to answer.
Gnostic Interpretation of the Jewish Law: Ptolemy's Letter to Flora
Gnostic Interpretation of the Jewish Law…
Gnostic Interpretation of the Jewish Law: Ptolemy's Letter to Flora
I am guessing that most of you have never heard of the Valentinians, Ptolemy, and his letter to Flora. To be brief. (1) The Valentians were either a Gnostic group or a group that drew on Gnostic ideas in the second century. (2) Ptolemy was a Valentinian teacher in Rome ca. 150. (3) Flora had some questions about the Jewish Law, in sum, why do we obey some bits and not others, which Ptolemy tries to answer.