…rl-Stéphan Bouthillette Metaphysics as Therapy. List-Making and Renunciation in Gnostic Yogas Springer , 2025 This book examines the significance of metaphysical list-making as a determining feature of ‘spir... more This book examines the significance of metaphysical list-making …

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…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…

…e Manichaean, spent much of his intellectual and mental life among believers in Gnostic thought, and was influenced by these beliefs when the Manichaeism was formed by him. An important and widespread part of Mani's teachings and beliefs, is the myth of creation that included the…

… 2024. Download Dylan Burns and Eduard Iricinschi, "Preface: Manichaica-Judaica-Gnostica 1: Polemics, Geographies, and Ethics," Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies, 9 (2024): 143–158 Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies , 2024 The goals of this special issue of Gnosis: Journal of Gn…

…pigraphic Gospel of Judas have entered the text with preconceived notions about gnostic-leaning texts featuring Jesus and his disciples and the role Jesus plays in these types of texts. Focused more on the figure of Judas, scholars have presupposed a gnostic Jesus, a Jesus who br…

…y Rudolph Bultmann , argued that the Gospel of John has elements in common with Gnosticism . Some scholars still claim such tendencies in the gospel, but given that the oldest text certainly known to be Gnostic, the Apocrypha of John , is from the mid-second century, such a parad…

…isit the Bookstore for a complete selection of translations and books about the Gnostic Gospels. The Nag Hammadi Library The Second Treatise of the Great Seth Translated by Roger A. Bullard and Joseph A. Gibbons And the perfect Majesty is at rest in the ineffable light, in the tr…

…ol philosophies (Platonism, Aristotelianism, Epicureanism, Cynicism, Stoicism), Gnosticism. History, interrelationships, emerging world view of these movements. Course details Credit Hours: Max credits per semester: Max credits per degree: Grading Option: Graded with Option Credi…

…le to the fulfilment of Jesus' mission. [ 148 ] [ 149 ] [ 150 ] Syrian-Egyptian Gnosticism [ edit ] Among the early Judeo-Christian Gnostics the Ebionites held that John, along with Jesus and James the Just – all of whom they revered – were vegetarians. [ 151 ] [ 152 ] [ 153 ] [ …

…ished as a literary language across Egypt in the period c. 325 – c. 800 AD. The Gnostic texts in the Nag Hammadi library are primarily written in the Sahidic dialect. However, some texts also contain elements of the Subakhmimic (Lycopolitan) dialect, which was also used in Upper …

First emanation of God in some Gnostic cosmogony Barbēlō ( Greek : Βαρβηλώ) [ 1 ] refers to the first emanation of God in several forms of Gnostic cosmogony . Barbēlō is often depicted as a supreme female principle, the single passive antecedent of creation in its manifold. This …

…ished as a literary language across Egypt in the period c. 325 – c. 800 AD. The Gnostic texts in the Nag Hammadi library are primarily written in the Sahidic dialect. However, some texts also contain elements of the Subakhmimic (Lycopolitan) dialect, which was also used in Upper …

…ed out." His place among the Twelve Apostles was later filled by Matthias . The Gnostic Gospel of Judas portrays Judas's actions as done in obedience to instructions given to him by Jesus, and that Judas understood the Old Testament God (the Demiurge ) as distinguishable from the…

…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…