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A review<\/a> I wrote of Birger Pearson\u2019s Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature<\/em> (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007) has just appeared in the Review of Biblical Literature<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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