Question
A figure named for this concept lives in the thirteenth “aeon,” according to a text named for this concept narrated by Jesus. For 10 points each:
[10m] What concept names a genre of ancient literature that includes the Book of Job?
ANSWER: wisdom [or sophia; accept wisdom literature; or hokhmah; or khokhmah; accept Pistis Sophia; reject “knowledge”]
[10e] Sophia is represented as a divine feminine figure in many of these traditions. Many of these traditions, named for their emphasis on spiritual knowledge, believe in a malevolent “demiurge.”
ANSWER: Gnosticism [or Gnostic traditions]
[10h] In Gnosticism, Sophia is the creator of the first of these figures, Yaldabaoth. The Nag Hammadi library contains a Gnostic text about the Hypostasis of these figures, five of whom rule the “Kingdom of Darkness” in Manichaeism.
ANSWER: archons [or archontes; accept Hypostasis of the Archons]
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