Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World: Essays in Honour of John D. Turner

Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World: Essays in Honour of John D. Turner

Plotinus
Turner, John Douglas
Gnosticism
Philosophy, Ancient
Neoplatonism
Platonists

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.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill

2013

edited by Kevin Corrigan, Tuomas Rasimus ; in collaboration with Dylan M. Burns, Lance Jenott, Zeke Mazur

Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 82.

Front Matter / Kevin Corrigan and Tuomas Rasimus -- A Distinctive Intertextuality: Genesis and Platonizing Philosophy in The Secret Revelation of John / Karen L. King -- The Three Forms of First Thought (NHC XIII,1), and the Secret Book of John (NHC II,1 and par.) / Paul-Hubert Poirier -- Emissaries of Truth and Justice: The Seed of Seth as Agents of Divine Providence / Lance Jenott -- Sethian Names in Magical Texts: Protophanes and Meirotheos / Einar Thomassen -- “Third Ones and Fourth Ones”: Some Reflections on the Use of Indefinite Ordinals in Zostrianos / Wolf-Peter Funk -- Le quatrième écrit du codex Tchacos: les livres d’Allogène et la tradition littéraire séthienne / Louis Painchaud -- The Book of Allogenes (CT,4) and Sethian Gnosticism / Birger A. Pearson -- The Temptation of Allogenes (Codex Tchacos, Tractate IV) / Madeleine Scopello -- Martin Hengel and the Origins of Gnosticism / Volker Henning Drecoll -- Arithmos and Kosmos: Arithmology as an Exegetical Tool in the De Opificio Mundi of Philo of Alexandria / Robert M. Berchman -- Parole intérieure et parole proférée chez Philon d’Alexandrie et dans l’Évangile de la Vérité (NH I,3) / Anne Pasquier -- Remarques sur la cohérence des Extraits de Théodote / Jean-Daniel Dubois -- Evidence of “Valentinian” Ritual Practice? The Liturgical Fragments of Nag Hammadi Codex XI (NHC XI,2a–e) / Hugo Lundhaug -- 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) / Antti Marjanen -- “The Garment Poured its Entire Self over Me”: Christian Baptismal Traditions and the Origins of the Hymn of the Pearl / Dylan M. Burns -- Alexander of Lycopolis, Manichaeism and Neoplatonism / Johannes van Oort -- Crafting Gnosis: Gnostic Spirituality in the Ancient New Age / April D. DeConick -- The Symposium and Republic in the Mystical Thought of Plotinus and the Sethian Gnostics / Kevin Corrigan -- “Those Who Ascend to the Sanctuaries of the Temples”: The Gnostic Context of Plotinus’ First Treatise, 1.6 [1], On Beauty / Zeke Mazur -- Johannine Background of the Being-Life-Mind Triad / Tuomas Rasimus -- The Neopythagorean Backdrop to the Fall (σφαλμα/νευσισ) of the Soul in Gnosticism and its Echo in the Plotinian Treatises 33 and 34 / Jean-Marc Narbonne -- Écho et les antitypes / Michel Tardieu -- Plotinus and the Magical Rites Practiced by the Gnostics / Luc Brisson -- Where Did Matter Appear From? A Syntactic Problem in a Plotinian anti-Gnostic Treatise / Lorenzo Ferroni -- Plotinus, Epicurus, and the Gnostics: On Plotinian Classification of Philosophies / Andrei Cornea -- Plotinus and the Vehicle of the Soul / John Dillon -- Life and Happiness in the “Platonic Underworld” / Michael A. Williams -- Trial by Fire: An Ontological Reading of Katharsis / Svetla Slaveva-Griffin -- “Harmonizing” Aristotle’s Categories and Plato’s Parmenides before the Background of Natural Philosophy / Gerald Bechtle -- Christians against Matter: A Bouquet for Bishop Berkeley / Mark Edwards -- Proclus against the Gnostics? Some Remarks on a Subtle Allusion in the Timaeus-Commentary concerning Caves and Cages / Benjamin Gleede.

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