Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World

Essays in Honour of John D. Turner
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-22383-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 82, 704 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1225 g

Reihe: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies

This Festschrift honors the life and work of John D. Turner (Charles J. Mach University Professor of Classics and History at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln) on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Professor Turner’s work has been of profound importance for the study of the interaction between Greek philosophy and Gnosticism in late antiquity. This volume contains essays by international scholars on a broad range of topics that deal with Sethian, Valentinian and other early Christian thought, as well as with Platonism and Neoplatonism, and offer a variety of perspectives spanning intellectual history, Greek and Coptic philology, and the study of religions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corrigan, Kevin

Rasimus, Tuomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Eklektizismus, Esoterik, Anthroposophie, Theosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Sidnie White Crawford, John D. Turner: An Appreciation
PART I: GNOSTICISM AND OTHER RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS OF ANTIQUITY
Karen L. King, Distinctive Intertextuality: Genesis and Platonizing Philosophy in The Secret Revelation of John
Paul-Hubert Poirier, The Three Forms of First Thought (NHC XIII,1), and the Secret Book of John (NHC II,1 and par.)
Lance Jenott, Emissaries of Truth and Justice: The Seed of Seth as Agents of Divine Providence
Einar Thomassen, Sethian Names in Magical Texts: Protophanes and Meirotheos
Wolf-Peter Funk, “Third Ones and Fourth Ones”: Some Reflections on the Use of Indefinite Ordinals in Zostrianos
Louis Painchaud, Le quatrième écrit du codex Tchacos: les livres d’Allogène et la tradition littéraire séthienne
Birger A. Pearson, The Book of Allogenes (CT,4) and Sethian Gnosticism
Madeleine Scopello, The Temptation of Allogenes (Codex Tchacos, Tractate IV)
Volker Drecoll, Martin Hengel and the Origins of Gnosticism
Robert M. Berchman, Arithmos and Kosmos: Arithmology as an Exegetical Tool in the De Opificio Mundi of Philo of Alexandria
Anne Pasquier, Parole intérieure et parole proférée chez Philon d’Alexandrie et dans l’Évangile de la Vérité (NH I,3)
Jean-Daniel Dubois, Remarques sur la cohérence des Extraits de Théodote
Hugo Lundhaug, Evidence of “Valentinian” Ritual Practice? The Liturgical Fragments of Nag Hammadi Codex XI (NHC XI,2a–e)
Antti Marjanen, A Salvific Act of Transformation or a Symbol of Defilement? Baptism in Valentinian Liturgical Readings (NHC XI,2) and in the Testimony of Truth (NHC IX,3)
Dylan M. Burns, “The Garment Poured its Entire Self over Me”: Christian Baptismal Traditions and the Origins of the Hymn of the Pearl
Johannes van Oort, Alexander of Lycopolis, Manichaeism and Neoplatonism
April DeConick, Crafting Gnosis: Gnostic Spirituality in the Ancient New Age
PART II: CROSSING BOUNDARIES: GNOSTICISM AND PLATONISM
Kevin Corrigan, The Symposium and Republic in the Mystical Thoug

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin Corrigan is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Director of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. His recent works include Evagrius and Gregory: Mind, Soul and Body in the 4th Century (Ashgate, 2009), Religion and Philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions (ed. with J. D. Turner and P. Wakefield, Akademia Verlag, 2012), and Reason, Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought (Ashgate, 2013).

Tuomas Rasimus is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, and an Associate Professor at Université Laval. He has published on Gnosticism, Early Christianity and Neoplatonism, and his recent works include Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking (Brill, 2009), The Legacy of John: Second-Century Reception of the Fourth Gospel (ed., Brill, 2010), and Stoicism in Early Christianity (ed. with T. Engberg-Pedersen and I. Dunderberg, Baker Academic, 2010).