Our Divine Double

by Charles M. Stang

What if you were to discover that you were not entirely you, but rather one half of a whole, that you had, in other words, a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, providing a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms throughout the centuries, down to the present. Our Divine Double traces the rise of this ancient idea that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674287193
• ISBN13: 9780674287198
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"