Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies Editors Johannes van Oort & Einar Thomassen Editorial Board j.d. beduhn – a.d. deconick – w.-p. funk i. gardner – s.n.c. lieu – a. marjanen p. nage…

…msterdam (2004), and diving into the world of early Christianity and especially Gnosticism and the Coptic Gnostic texts discovered at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945, topics that occupied the bulk of my doctoral studies at Yale University (Religious Studies, Ph.D., 2011). As a postdo…

…sible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe . Various schools of Gnostics adopted the term demiurge . Although a fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily the same as the creator figure in the monotheistic sense, because the demiurge itself and the material from w…

…ag Hammadi Library Gnosis Archive Library Bookstore Index Web Lectures Ecclesia Gnostica Gnostic Society About the Nag Hammadi Library (The Nag Hammadi Scriptures) The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient books (called "codices") containing over fifty texts, was …

Collection of Gnostic and Christian texts Codex II , one of the most prominent Gnostic writings found in the Nag Hammadi library. Shown here are the end of the Apocryphon of John and the beginning of the Gospel of Thomas . The Nag Hammadi library (also known as the Chenoboskion M…

…intertextual relations and will be employed here. Download The Sethians and the Gnostics of Plotinus This is a chapter in the forthcoming The Routledge Companion to Early Christian Philosophy, edite... more This is a chapter in the forthcoming The Routledge Companion to Early Chr…

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…hat the Gospel of Thomas (abbreviated, GTh ) was a late-second or third century Gnostic forgery. Scholars currently involved in Thomas studies now largely reject that view, though such arguments will still be heard from orthodox apologists and are encountered in some of the earli…

…ent them out another way?" — James ii. 14, 25. Clement describes Basilides, the Gnostic, as "a philosopher devoted to the contemplation of divine things." This very appropriate expression may be applied to many of the founders of the more important sects which later were all engu…

…tiche a Giustino, dai primi vangeli agli Atti apocrifi, dalle lettere paoline a gnosticismo e montanismo, si dipana un percorso attraverso una fase particolarmente viva e plurale, rispetto alla quale il costituirsi della cosiddetta “proto-ortodossia”, alla fine del II secolo, seg…

…, quantum physics, cosmic consciousness, non-locality, panpsychism. Was Jesus a Gnostic? , 2026 This study explores the radically alternative portrayal of Jesus in the Nag Hammadi texts (2nd–4t... more This study explores the radically alternative portrayal of Jesus in the Nag Ha…

…the Gospel of Mary." [ 17 ] Richard Valantasis writes in The Beliefnet Guide to Gnosticism and Other Vanished Christianities (see Beliefnet ) that the Mary here is Mary Magdalene. Valantasis clarifies that this does not "confirm an earthly marriage between her and Jesus – far fro…

…idered by the church as useful, but not divinely inspired. As such, to refer to Gnostic writings as "apocryphal" is misleading since they would not be classified in the same category by orthodox believers. Often used by the Greek Fathers was the term antilegomena , or 'spoken aga…

…f Upper Egypt. Eschewing the modern classification of the Nag Hammadi texts as "Gnostic,” the authors approach the codices and their ancient owners from the perspective of the diverse monastic culture of late antique Egypt and situate them in the context of the ongoing controvers…

…oastrianism , Buddhism , Marcionism , [ 15 ] Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaism , Gnosticism , Ancient Greek religion , Babylonian religion , other ancient Mesopotamian religions , [ 19 ] and the Greco-Roman mysteries . [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Some forms of Manichaeism viewed Mani as the fin…