AUTHOR: Silviu LUPAȘCU ABBA SOPATRUS ON APOCRYPHAL LITERATURE Danubius, XL, Galati, 2022, pp. 209-220. Abstract The textual proximity of “woman” and “apocryphal literature” in a fragment included in the Apophthegmata Patrum may seem paradoxical. Abba Sopatrus’ apophthegm must be understood against the background of the theological debates of Origenists and non-Origenists during the IVth –…

AUTHOR: Silviu LUPAŞCU Danubius, XXXI, Galati, 2013, pp. 309-326. Abstract In the Romanian folklore tradition, a considerable amount of sources attest the widespread belief in “the heaven‘s custom houses“, as a constitutive part of the imaginary circumscribing the journey of the soul, after death. These traditions and the funeral rites inspired by them survive into…

AUTHOR: Silviu LUPAŞCU Danubius, XXXII, Galati, 2014, pp. 419-446. Abstract Hans Jonas has distinguished the “Syrian-Egyptian” Gnostic systems (the Nag Hammadi Library) from the “Iranian” Gnostic systems (Manichaeism, Mandaeism). Concerning the first type, the origin of Evil and the Powers of Darkness appertains to the climax of an ontological involution or descending process, from the…