The Coming of the Star-Child:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" The Coming of the Star-Child: "
Brent Landau

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1067208
Doc. No	:	LA110837
Call No	:	‭10.1163/2451859X-12340011‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Brent Landau
Title & Author	:	The Coming of the Star-Child: [Article] : The Reception of the Revelation of the Magi in New Age Religious Thought and Ufology\ Brent Landau
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	1/1-2
Page No	:	196–217
Abstract	:	The Revelation of the Magi is the longest and most complex ancient Christian apocryphal writing devoted to the Magi. In this paper, after discussing the basic issues surrounding the interpretation of this text, I explore the popular reception of the text after my publication of it in 2010. This popular reception has been dominated by New Age and ufological (that is, the theorizing of unidentified flying objects) interpretative perspectives. Rather than viewing these interpretations as anachronistic, the paper argues that they may have far more in common with the circumstances that gave rise to the Revelation of the Magi than might initially be supposed. Ultimately, the Revelation of the Magi can be profitably characterized as a “gnostic” text—despite its lack of a demiurge—because of its strongly countercultural religious outlook, an outlook it shares with much New Age religious thought.
Descriptor	:	Biblical Studies
Descriptor	:	Gnosticism Manichaeism
Descriptor	:	reception theory
Descriptor	:	Revelation of the Magi
Descriptor	:	ufology
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/2451859X-12340011‬