La dottrina della creazione del mondo negli scritti priscillianisti

Several texts attributed to Priscillian or to his followers deal with the creation of the world. The A. studies the description of the Tractatus Genesis, comparing it with other priscillianist texts: the Benedictio super fideles, the two apologetical works of the Würzburg corpus (i.e the Liber apologeticus and the Liber ad Damasum), the Canones in Pauli apostoli epistulas nr. 5 and nr. 8 -the only work certainly attributed to Priscillian-, and the De creatione mundi, a short fragmentary text that some scholars assign to Priscillian itself or an anonymous Priscillianist. In this paper the Author seeks to identify similarities and differences in the above described texts with regard to the creation of the world and to compare them with the ancient sources, who describe the Priscillianist sect as a dualistic heresy.