The Rediscovery of Gnosticism (2 volumes), Proceedings of the Conference at Yale March 1978.

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Main Author: Bentley Layton (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1981.

Series: Numen Book Series 41.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

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Call Number: BT1390 .I56 1981

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Bentley Layton
  • The Domestication of Gnosis /
  • Henry Chadwick
  • Gnosis and Psychology /
  • Gilles Quispel
  • The Challenge of Gnostic Thought for Philosophy, Alchemy, and Literature /
  • Carsten Colpe
  • Lying Against Time: Gnosis, Poetry, Criticism /
  • Harold Bloom
  • In Search of Valentinus /
  • G. C. Stead
  • Religio-Historical Observations on Valentinianism /
  • Ugo Bianchi
  • Valentinian Gnosis and the Apocryphon of John /
  • Gilles Quispel
  • Valentinianism and the Gospel of Truth /
  • R. McL. Wilson
  • The Dog and the Mushrooms /
  • Rowan A. Greer
  • Self-Generating Principles in Second-Century Gnostic Systems /
  • John Whittaker
  • La Gnose Valentinienne et les Oracles Chaldaïques /
  • Michel Tardieu
  • Gnostic Writings as Witnesses for the Development of the Sayings Tradition /
  • Helmut Koester
  • Gnostic and Orthodox views of Christ's Passion: Paradigms for the Christian's Response to Persecution? /
  • Elaine H. Pagels
  • Gnosis and the Piety of Metaphor: The Gospel of Truth /
  • Joel Fineman
  • Gnosis und Christentum /
  • Barbara Aland
  • Concluding Discussion
  • The Descent of the Soul in Middle Platonic and Gnostic Theory /
  • John Dillon
  • Gnosticism and the Making of the World in Plotinus /
  • Dominic J. O'meara
  • Gnostic Monism and the Gospel of Truth /
  • William R. Schoedel
  • Valentinisme italien et valentinisme oriental: leurs divergences à propos de la nature du corps de Jésus /
  • Jean-Daniel Kaestli
  • Conflicting Versions of Valentinianism? Irenaeus and the Excerpta ex Theodoto /
  • James F. Mccue
  • Les «Mythes» Valentiniens de la création et de l'eschatologie dans le langage d'Origène: le mot hypothesis /
  • Marguerite Harl
  • «Vraie» et «fausse» gnose d'après Clément d'Alexandrie /
  • Andre Mehat
  • Did Gnostics Make Pictures? /
  • Paul Corby Finney
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Bentley Layton
  • Philo on Seth /
  • Robert Kraft
  • Report on Seth Traditions in the Armenian Adam Books /
  • Michael E. Stone
  • The Figure of Seth in Gnostic Literature /
  • Birger A. Pearson
  • Discussion /
  • Bentley Layton
  • Some Related Traditions in the Apocalypse of Adam, the Books of Adam and eve, and 1 Enoch /
  • George W. E. Nickelsburg
  • Sethian and Zoroastrian Ages of the World /
  • Carsten Colpe
  • Discussion /
  • Bentley Layton
  • Stalking Those Elusive Sethians /
  • Frederik Wisse
  • Die "Sethianische" Gnosis-Eine häresiologische Fiktion? /
  • Kurt Rudolph
  • Discussion /
  • Bentley Layton
  • The Phenomenon and Significance of Gnostic Sethianism /
  • Hans-Martin Schenke
  • Triade uno Trinität in den Schriften von Nag Hammadi /
  • Alexander Böhlig
  • Discussion /
  • Bentley Layton
  • Sethians and Johannine Thought /
  • James M. Robinson
  • Discussion /
  • Bentley Layton
  • Concluding Discussion /
  • Bentley Layton
  • The Arrogant Archon and the Lewd Sophia /
  • Nils A. Dahl
  • Aspects of the Jewish-Gnostic Controversy /
  • Ithamar Gruenwald
  • Literary Criticism of the Cologne Mani Codex /
  • Albert Henrichs
  • From Baptism to the Gnosis of Manichaeism /
  • Ludwig Koenen
  • Gnostic Instructions on the Organization of the Congregation /
  • Klaus Koschorke
  • The Naassene Psalm in Hippolytus (Haer. 5. 10.2) /
  • M. Marcovich
  • Le cadre scolaire des traités de l'Ame et le Deuxième Traité du Grand Seth (CG VII, 2) /
  • Louis Painchaud.