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“Becoming Male”: a Gnostic, Early Christian and Islamic Metaphor

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Women’s Studies of the Christian and Islamic Traditions

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In certain Gnostic texts or texts that show unmistakable Gnostic influence, we find a sex-change metaphor1 where “woman is turned into man” ( hē gynē eis andra metatithestai )or where the more general expression “becoming male” ( apandro )is used. Apparently these terms can be regarded as parts of an anthropological and soteriological terminology.

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Vogt, K. (1993). “Becoming Male”: a Gnostic, Early Christian and Islamic Metaphor. In: Women’s Studies of the Christian and Islamic Traditions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1664-0_6

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