Valentinianism: New Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41371-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 96, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 885 g

Reihe: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies

Since Antiquity, the movement associated with Valentinus has been regarded as the most typical and the most representative exponent of “Gnosticism.” Recent research has led to a new appraisal of Valentinianism as a distinct form of early Christianity that deserves to be understood in its own right. Valentinianism served as a catalyst for the development of mainstream Christian doctrine, exegesis and ritual. Its connections to contemporary forms of Platonism are being progressively uncovered. The present volume, edited by Christoph Markschies and Einar Thomassen, shows the current state of research on Valentinianism, offering contributions by leading experts about the history of the movement, contested aspects of Valentinian doctrine, and the use and interpretation of the New Testament by the Valentinians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Thomassen, Einar

Markschies, Christoph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and TablesX

Introduction

Christoph Markschies and Einar Thomassen

Part 1: Historical Issues

1 The Relative Chronology of the Valentinian Systems

Einar Thomassen

2 „Grande Notice“: Einige einleitende Bemerkungen zur Überlieferung des sogenannten Systems der Schüler des Ptolemaeus Gnosticus

Christoph Markschies

3 Valentinianer und „Gnostiker“: Zu einer Bemerkung des Irenaeus von Lyon in Adversus haereses 1.11.1

Herbert Schmid

4 The Relationship between the Valentinian and Sethian Sophia Myth Revisited

Antti Marjanen

5 Fragments of an Early “Lost” Valentinianism: Irenaeus and the Gnostic Doctrinal Letter of Epiphanius, Panarion 31.5–6

Giuliano Chiapparini

6 Flavia’s Neighborhood: Further Evidence for a Second-Century Christian Group on the Via Latina

H. Gregory Snyder

7 Florinus – ein valentinianischer Gnostiker in Rom?

Niclas Förster

Part 2: Valentinian Doctrine

8 Once Again, the Valentinian Expression “Saved by Nature”

Jean-Daniel Dubois

9 The Ethics of Higher and Lower Levels of Salvation in the Excerpts from Theodotus and the Tripartite Tractate

Alexander Kocar

10 'Tu as vu le Père, tu deviendras père' (EvPhil NHC II 61,31–32). Comment devient-on père dans l’Évangile selon Philippe?

Louis Painchaud

11 1 Apocalypse of James and Valentinians on Martyrdom

Karen L. King

12 Der Demiurg und sein Wirken: Die Deutung des Valentinianismus im Vergleich zu der des Platonismus

Barbara Aland

13 Plotinus and the Gnostics: the Tripartite Tractate?

John D. Turner

14 Überlegungen zum Mythos im Johannesevangelium und bei den Valentinianern des Irenaeus

Ansgar Wucherpfennig

Part 3: Valentinian Exegesis

15 Valentinians and the Christian Canon

Pheme Perkins

16 Valentinian Influence on Irenaeus: Early Allegorization of the New Testament

David W. Jorgensen

17 Valentinians Reading John

Harold W. Attridge

18 Paul and Valentinian Morality

Ismo Dunderberg

19 Participation in the Cross of Christ: Pauline Motifs in the Excerpts from Theodotus

Judith L. Kovacs

Über Autor(innen)

Christoph Markschies, Dr. theol. habil. (Tübingen 1991, 1994), Dr. theol. h.c. mult. (Sibiu/Hermannstadt, Oslo, Lateran University Rome) is Professor for Ancient Christianity in Berlin, vice-president of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and member of numerous scholarly academies in Germany and abroad. His latest publications include Christian Theology and Its Institutions in the Early Roman Empire (Waco, Tex., 2015) und Gottes Körper: Jüdische, christliche und pagane Gottesvorstellungen in der Antike (Munich, 2016).

Einar Thomassen, PhD (1982), University of St Andrews, is Professor of Religion at the University of Bergen. He has published monographs, editions, translations and many articles on Valentinianism and the history of religions generally, including The Spiritual Seed (Brill, 2006).