This book examines religious and 'scientific'/philosophical accounts of world-generation as represented by the figure of the Demiurge, or Craftsman-god.

How was the world generated and how does matter continue to be ordered so that the world can continue functioning? Questions like these have existed as long as

This work investigates how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge or technê and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, politics and cosmology. In e

How was the world generated and how does matter continue to be ordered so that the world can continue functioning? Questions like these have existed as long as

In the second century, Platonist and Judeo-Christian thought were sufficiently friendly that a Greek philosopher could declare, "What is Plato but Moses speakin