Studies In Gnosticism And Hellenistic Religions

Author : M. J. Vermaseren,Roel B. van den Broek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 644 pages
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Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004295698

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Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic Religions Presented to Gilles Quispel on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday by M. J. Vermaseren,Roel B. van den Broek Pdf

Preliminary material /R. Van Den Broek and M. J. Vermaseren -- LIST OF PROFESSOR QUISPEL'S PUBLICATIONS /R. Van Den Broek and M. J. Vermaseren -- TRACES OF AN ALEXANDRIAN ORPHIC THEOGONY IN THE PSEUDO-CLEMENTINES /J. VAN AMERSFOORT -- THE RELIGIO-HISTORICAL RELEVANCE OF LK 20:34-36 /UGO BIANCHI -- THE CREATION OF ADAM'S PSYCHIC BODY IN THE APOCRYPHON OF JOHN /R. VAN DEN BROEK -- DAĒNĀ, LICHTJUNGFRAU, ZWEITE GESTALT /CARSTEN COLPE -- THE ANGELS OF THE NATIONS AND THE ORIGINS OF GNOSTIC DUALISM /IOAN P. CULIANU -- GNOSTISCHE SPUREN BEI PLUTARCH /H. DÖRRIE -- ODES OF SOLOMON AND PSALMS OF MANI /H. J. W. DRIJVERS -- ELEMENTS GNOSTIQUES DANS L'ŒUVRE DE MACROBE /JACQUES FLAMANT -- SAMARITAN DEMIURGICAL TRADITIONS AND THE ALLEGED DOVE CULT OF THE SAMARITANS /JARL FOSSUM -- CHARGES OF “IMMORALITY” AGAINST VARIOUS RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN ANTIQUITY /ROBERT M. GRANT -- THE PROBLEM OF THE ANTI-GNOSTIC POLEMIC IN RABBINIC LITERATURE /ITHAMAR GRUENWALD -- LES SÉMITISMES DANS L'ÉVANGILE SELON THOMAS ESSAI DE CLASSEMENT /ANTOINE GUILLAUMONT -- POINTES ANTIGNOSTIQUES D'ORIGÈNE: LE QUESTIONNEMENT IMPIE DES ÉCRITURES /MARGUERITE HARL -- AN ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF THE STORY OF THE FLOOD IN THE APOCALYPSE OF ADAM /A. F. J. KLIJN -- LE LIVRE D'ADAM GEORGIEN /JEAN-PIERRE MAHÉ -- BAD WORLD AND DEMIURGE: A 'GNOSTIC' MOTIF FROM PARMENIDES AND EMPEDOCLES TO LUCRETIUS AND PHILO /JAAP MANSFELD -- CATALOGUES OF SINS AND VIRTUES PERSONIFIED (NHC 11,5) /GERARD MUSSIES -- JEWISH ELEMENTS IN CORPUS HERMETICUM I (POIMANDRES) /BIRGER A. PEARSON -- HELLENISTIC MAGIC: SOME QUESTIONS OF DEFINITION /ALAN F. SEGAL -- INTERPRETAZIONI GNOSTICHE E MISTERIOSOFICHE DEL MITO DI ATTIS /GIULIA SFAMENI GASPARRO -- ABERAMENTHŌ /MICHEL TARDIEU -- L'ICONOGRAPHIE D'ATTIS MOURANT /MAARTEN J. VERMASEREN -- UNE ANAPHORE INCOMPLÈTE? /H.A.J. WEGMAN -- GNOSIS AND THE MYSTERIES /R. MeL. WILSON -- “TERRA AUTEMSTUPIDA QUADAM ERAT ADMIRATIONE” /J.C.M. VAN WINDEN -- JEWISH GNOSTICISM? /EDWIN M. YAMAUCHI -- “THE TEACHINGS OF SILVANUS” (NHC VII,4) AND JEWISH CHRISTIANITY /J. ZANDEE -- INDEX OF SOURCES /Roel B. Van Den Broek and M. J. Vermaseren -- INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS /Roel B. Van Den Broek and M. J. Vermaseren.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1014518700

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Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic Religions by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jørgen Podemann Sørensen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 8772890797

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Rethinking Religion by Jørgen Podemann Sørensen Pdf

The origin of this dossier of studies is a symposium, held in April 1984 by the Institute for the History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen, on the occasion of Professor Ugo Bianchi's visit. The intention to publish the symposium ripened during the rest of 1984, and to the original presentations were added the contribution by Per Bilde on Roman Mithraism and the editor's Attis or Osiris'.

Author : Maarten Jozef Vermaseren
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004058850

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Studies in Hellenistic Religions by Maarten Jozef Vermaseren Pdf

Author : Luther H. Martin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498283083

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Studies in Hellenistic Religions by Luther H. Martin Pdf

This selection of essays by Luther Martin brings together studies from throughout his career—both early as well as more recent—in the various areas of Graeco-Roman religions, including mystery cults, Judaism, Christianity, and Gnosticism. It is hoped that these studies, which represent spatial, communal, and cognitive approaches to the study of ancient religions might be of interest to those concerned with the structures and dynamics of religions past in general, as well as to scholars who might, with more recent historical research, confirm, evaluate, extend, or refute the hypotheses offered here, for that is the way scholars work and by which scholarship proceeds.

Author : Roelof van den Broek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139620413

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Gnostic Religion in Antiquity by Roelof van den Broek Pdf

Gnostic religion is the expression of a religious worldview which is dominated by the concept of Gnosis, an esoteric knowledge of God and the human being which grants salvation to those who possess it. Roelof van den Broek presents here a fresh approach to the gnostic current of Late Antiquity within its historical and religious context, based on sources in Greek, Latin and Coptic, including discussions of the individual works of preserved gnostic literature. Van den Broek explores the various gnostic interpretations of the Christian faith that were current in the second and third centuries, whilst showing that despite its influence on early Christianity, gnostic religion was not a typically Christian phenomenon. This book will be of interest to theologians, historians of religion, students and scholars of the history of Late Antiquity and early Christianity, as well as specialists in ancient gnostic and hermetic traditions.

Author : Institute for Christian Studies
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0819195448

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Hellenization Revisited by Institute for Christian Studies Pdf

This volume focuses on the role of Judaism, particularly that of Philo, and of Gnosticism, as two important forces shaping the response of early Christianity to the Hellenistic Greco-Roman culture of its time. The sections which examine Hellenistic Judaism investigate themes from Greek philosophy, like 'reason controlling the passions, ' which are also crucial in shaping Philo's perception of the feminine. The manner in which Jewish authors of this period attempt to synthesize Old Testament with Greek philosophical themes like creation/cosmology receives specific treatment. Essays dealing with Gnosticism re-examine themes from Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle in Gnostic documents, but also look at the role of Hellenistic Judaism with its interests in Sophia. Co-published with the Institute for Christian Studies

Author : Gilles Quispel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004139459

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Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica by Gilles Quispel Pdf

This volume brings together a rich and varied collection of essays by Gilles Quispel (1916-2006), Professor of the History of the Early Church at Utrecht University from 1951 until his retirement in 1983. During his illustrious career, Professor Quispel was also visiting Professor at Harvard University in 1964/65, and visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven from 1969 until 1974. The fifty essays collected in this volume testify to most of the prominent themes from Professor Quispela (TM)s scholarly career: the writings of the Nag Hammadi library in general and the "Gospel of Thomas" in particular; Tatiana (TM)s "Diatessaron" and its influences; the "Hermetica"; Mani and Manichaeism; the Jewish origins of Gnosticism; and Gnosis and the future of Christianity. This volume also makes a number of his less known earlier publications (mainly presented under the heading a ~Catholicaa (TM)) available to the international community. Until shortly before he died, Professor Quispel remained active in his study of the "Gospel of Thomas." He had been one of the first to acquire the Coptic text of the "Gospel of Thomas," of which he published the first translation in 1959 and his final translation in 2005. He was also active in researching the "Diatessaron," and Valentinus a ~the Gnostica (TM). One of his most recent essays a " published for the first time in this volume a " is on a ~the Muslim Jesus.a (TM)

Author : Tuomas Rasimus
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
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Release : 2009-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047426707

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Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking by Tuomas Rasimus Pdf

Examining the mythology in and social reality behind a group of texts rewriting Genesis, to which certain leaders of the early church occasionally attached the label ‘Ophite,’ this book offers a new understanding of Sethianism and the origins of Gnosticism.

Author : Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004145108

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Gnostic Revisions of Genesis Stories And Early Jesus Traditions by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen Pdf

The book examines the critical use of biblical and early Christian traditions in such Christian-Gnostic texts as the Apocryphon of John, The Nature of the Archons, The Apocalypse of Adam, The Testimony of Truth, The Apocalypse of Peter, The Letter of Peter to Philip, and the apocryphal Acts of John.

Author : Karen L. King
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 488 pages
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Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1563383314

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Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism by Karen L. King Pdf

Essays on the feminine face of God in Gnostic philsophy and theology are collected in a fascinating introduction to this early and often persecuted strand of Christian thought. Original.

Author : G. R. S. Mead,Trismegistus Hermes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
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Release : 2013-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1614274975

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Thrice-Greatest Hermes; Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis [Three Volumes in One] by G. R. S. Mead,Trismegistus Hermes Pdf

2013 Reprint of 1906 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Three Volumes bound into one. Volume contents are: Vol. 1. Prolegomena. -- Vol. 2. Sermons. -- Vol. 3. Excerpts and fragments This work exemplifies all that is best in Mead's dedicated, scholarly, but eminently readable studies of the spiritual roots of Christian Gnosticism and, more generally, of personal religion in the Greco-Roman world. His work encompassed much more than this; Mead was equally at home with Sanskrit texts, Patristic literature, Buddhist thought, and the problems of contemporary philosophy and psychical research. He devoted his intellectual energy to the complex interplay of Gnosticism, Hellenism, Judaism, and Christianity. This three volume set presents his insights into the formation of the Gnostic world-view and establishes him as an outstanding translator of these Hermetic books, and as the first modern scholar of Gnostic tradition.

Author : Roelof van den Broek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004439689

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Studies in Gnosticism and Alexandrian Christianity by Roelof van den Broek Pdf

The discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library (1945) has given an enormous impetus not only to the study of ancient Gnosticism but also to that of early Christianity in general. Most of the studies contained in this volume deal with mythological conceptions and theological ideas found in various Nag Hammadi writings. The gnostic views on the nature of God and on creation and salvation receive particular attention, ranging from Philo to the medieval Cathars. The Nag Hammadi Library also shed new light on the development of early Alexandrian Christianity and its theology. The book contains six studies which explicitly deal with these topics. This volume is of interest to students of Gnosticism, early Christianity and Graeco-Roman religious and philosophical ideas in general.

Author : Lovewell Mwansa
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783346932303

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Gnosticism. Analysis and understanding of Codex III by Lovewell Mwansa Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject Theology - Biblical Theology, , language: English, abstract: Stephen Robinson states that the term 'Gnostic' comes from the Greek word for knowledge (gnosis). Fundamental to Gnosticism was the belief that the principle of knowledge is the principle of salvation, and that it is impossible for a man to be saved in ignorance. Personal revelation was crucial. The knowledge necessary for salvation consisted, according to many Gnostic writings, of higher teachings and ordinances taught by Jesus and his disciples and transmitted in oral traditions which were most often too secret and sacred to be written down or to be discussed with any who were not worthy of them. On those occasions when they were written down, they appear to have been closely held and committed to writing only in an effort to preserve them for future generations. Although orthodox Christianity has emphatically denied that any such esoteric teachings ever existed, Gnosticism insisted not only that they were an important part of earliest Christianity, but also that they were the most important part. Even if Gnosticism has been known to scholars in a less complete form with the aid of the writings of the church fathers and by an occasional manuscript, usually it has been treated as a form of devious Christianity having only secondary significance. The discovery of the Nag Hammadi library has reemphasized the fact that Gnosticism was the church and not merely the heretic fringe of the universal church. According to Michael Kaler, Gnosticism was a religious movement which denigrated this cosmos and awaited a saviour figure who would rescue the gnostic believers from it, and the Valentinianism is regarded to be one of the two main branches of Gnosticism, along with Sethianism, so that insofar as the Apocalypse of Paul is Valentinian, it is also gnostic by default.

Author : Miroslav Marcovich
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004296008

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Studies in Graeco-Roman Religions and Gnosticism by Miroslav Marcovich Pdf

Preliminary material -- A COD CALLED LYCHNOS -- HERMOCLES' ITHYPHALLUS FOR DEMETRIUS -- DEMETER, BAUBO, IACCHUS--AND A REDACTOR -- SATOR AREPO = GEORGOS HARPON -- UBI MURES FERRUM RODUNT -- THE ISIS WITH SEVEN ROBES -- THE TEXT OF THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS (NAG HAMMADI II.2) -- THE NAASSENE PSALM IN HIPPOLYTUS -- PHANES, PHICOLA, AND THE SETHIANS -- JUSTIN'S BARUCH: A SHOWCASE OF GNOSTIC SYNCRETISM -- NEW GNOSTIC TEXTS -- MONOIMUS' LETTER TO THEOPHRASTUS -- THE ESSENES AS CHRISTIANS -- THE WEDDING HYMN OF ACTA THOMAE -- PYTHAGORAS AS COCK -- INDEX LOCORUM -- INDEX RERUM.