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The Sethians were a Gnostic sect during the Roman era. Alongside Valentinianism, Sethianism was one of the main currents of Gnosticism during the 2nd to 3rd centuries. Their thinking, though it is predominantly Judaic in foundation, is arguably strongly influenced by Platonism. Sethianism attributed its ''gnosis'' to Seth, third son of Adam and Eve and ''Norea'', wife of Noah (who also plays a role in Mandeanism and Manicheanism). ==Mentions of the Sethians== The Sethians (Latin ''Sethoitae'') are first mentioned, alongside the Ophites, in the 2nd century, by Irenaeus and in Pseudo-Tertullian (Ch.30).〔Albertus Frederik Johannes Klijn ''Seth in Jewish, Christian and gnostic literature '' p82〕〔Schaff Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume 1〕 According to Frederik Wisse (1981)〔ARC McGill University. Faculty of Religious Studies - 2005 "Bowdoin College Frederik Wisse's seminal article "Stalking those Elusive Sethians" ( 1981 ) provided a much-needed corrective for a growing tendency among scholars of Gnosticism to see Sethianism not only as a descriptor covering a set of documents with shared characteristics, ... Wisse likened the search for the Sethians to the historical quest for the mythical unicorn, that hybrid beast"〕 all subsequent accounts appear to be largely dependent on Irenaeus.〔" Studies in the history of religions, 1 41 1 Yale University.〕 Hippolytus repeats information from Irenaeus. According to Epiphanius of Salamis (c.375) Sethians were in his time found only in Egypt and Palestine, although fifty years before they had been found as far away as Greater Armenia (''Panarion'' 39.1.1 2; 40.1).〔Turner "Around 375 C.E., Epiphanius has difficulty recalling where he had encountered Sethians, and says that they are not to be found everywhere, but now only in Egypt and Palestine, although fifty years before they had spread as far as Greater Armenia (Pan. 39.1.1 2; 40.1). "〕 One of the sources of Epiphanius, the lost ''Syntagma'' of Hippolytus of Rome, was also the source for Christian heresies before Noetus in Philaster's ''Catalogue of heresies''. Nathaniel Lardner (1838) noted that Philaster places the Ophites, Cainites, and Sethians as pre-Christian Jewish sects.〔The works of Nathaniel Lardner, D.D. pp552 - 1838 "Philaster has three chapters of Ophites, Cainites, and Sethians. They are placed by him among the heresies before Christ, and are the very first in his catalogue. Nor has he any thing that might lead us to think them christians"〕 However, since Sethians identified Seth with Christ (''Second Logos of the Great Seth''), Philaster's belief that the Sethians had pre-Christian origins, other than in syncretic absorption of Jewish and Greek pre-Christian sources, has been not found acceptance in later scholarship.〔Alan F. Segal ''Two powers in heaven: early rabbinic reports about Christianity and Gnosticism'' 2002 p254 text and footnote 24 comment on Wisse.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sethianism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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