Our Divine Double

What if you were to discover that you were only one half of a wholeùthat you had a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, Charles Stang shows, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, offering a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms down to the present.

• | Author: Charles M. Stang
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 07, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 0674287193
• | ISBN-13: 9780674287198