Table Of ContentGnosticism, Platonism
and the Late Ancient World
Nag Hammadi and
Manichaean Studies
Editors
JohannesvanOort&EinarThomassen
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j.d.beduhn–a.d.deconick–w.-p.funk
i.gardner–s.n.c.lieu–a.marjanen
p.nagel–l.painchaud–b.a.pearson
n.a.pedersen–s.g.richter–j.m.robinson
m.scopello–j.d.turner–g.wurst
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Gnosticism, Platonism
and the Late Ancient World
Essays in Honour of John D. Turner
Editedby
KevinCorrigan
TuomasRasimus
Incollaborationwith
DylanM.Burns
LanceJenott
ZekeMazur
LEIDEN•BOSTON
2013
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CONTENTS
Preface............................................................... xi
Abbreviations........................................................ xix
Illustrations.......................................................... xxvii
Contributors......................................................... xxix
JohnD.Turner:AnAppreciation .................................... xxxix
SidnieWhiteCrawford
PARTI
GNOSTICISMANDOTHERRELIGIOUS
MOVEMENTSOFANTIQUITY
ADistinctiveIntertextuality:GenesisandPlatonizingPhilosophyin
TheSecretRevelationofJohn........................................ 3
KarenL.King
TheThreeFormsofFirstThought(NHCXIII,1),andtheSecretBookof
John(NHCII,1andpar.) ............................................ 23
Paul-HubertPoirier
EmissariesofTruthandJustice:TheSeedofSethasAgentsofDivine
Providence ......................................................... 43
LanceJenott
SethianNamesinMagicalTexts:ProtophanesandMeirotheos ........ 63
EinarThomassen
“ThirdOnesandFourthOnes”:SomeReflectionsontheUseof
IndefiniteOrdinalsinZostrianos ................................... 79
Wolf-PeterFunk
LequatrièmeécritducodexTchacos:leslivresd’Allogèneetla
traditionlittéraireséthienne ....................................... 89
LouisPainchaud
TheBookofAllogenes(CT,4)andSethianGnosticism .................. 105
BirgerA.Pearson
viii contents
TheTemptationofAllogenes(CodexTchacos,TractateIV) ............ 117
MadeleineScopello
MartinHengelandtheOriginsofGnosticism .......................... 139
VolkerHenningDrecoll
ArithmosandKosmos:ArithmologyasanExegeticalToolintheDe
OpificioMundiofPhiloofAlexandria .............................. 167
RobertM.Berchman
ParoleintérieureetparoleproféréechezPhilond’Alexandrieetdans
l’ÉvangiledelaVérité(NHI,3) ...................................... 199
AnnePasquier
RemarquessurlacohérencedesExtraitsdeThéodote .................. 209
Jean-DanielDubois
Evidenceof“Valentinian”RitualPractice?TheLiturgicalFragments
ofNagHammadiCodexXI(NHCXI,2a–e) ......................... 225
HugoLundhaug
ASalvificActofTransformationoraSymbolofDefilement?Baptism
inValentinianLiturgicalReadings(NHCXI,2)andinthe
TestimonyofTruth(NHCIX,3)...................................... 245
AnttiMarjanen
“TheGarmentPoureditsEntireSelfoverMe”:ChristianBaptismal
TraditionsandtheOriginsoftheHymnofthePearl ................ 261
DylanM.Burns
AlexanderofLycopolis,ManichaeismandNeoplatonism .............. 275
JohannesvanOort
CraftingGnosis:GnosticSpiritualityintheAncientNewAge .......... 285
AprilD.DeConick
PARTII
CROSSINGBOUNDARIES:GNOSTICISMANDPLATONISM
TheSymposiumandRepublicintheMysticalThoughtofPlotinusand
theSethianGnostics................................................ 309
KevinCorrigan
contents ix
“ThoseWhoAscendtotheSanctuariesoftheTemples”:TheGnostic
ContextofPlotinus’FirstTreatise,1.6[1],OnBeauty ............... 329
ZekeMazur
JohannineBackgroundoftheBeing-Life-MindTriad................... 369
TuomasRasimus
TheNeopythagoreanBackdroptotheFall(σφάλμα/νεῦσις)oftheSoul
inGnosticismanditsEchointhePlotinianTreatises33and34.... 411
Jean-MarcNarbonne
Échoetlesantitypes.................................................... 427
MichelTardieu
PlotinusandtheMagicalRitesPracticedbytheGnostics .............. 443
LucBrisson
WhereDidMatterAppearFrom?ASyntacticProbleminaPlotinian
anti-GnosticTreatise ............................................... 459
LorenzoFerroni
Plotinus,Epicurus,andtheGnostics:OnPlotinianClassificationof
Philosophies........................................................ 465
AndreiCornea
PlotinusandtheVehicleoftheSoul .................................... 485
JohnDillon
LifeandHappinessinthe“PlatonicUnderworld” ...................... 497
MichaelA.Williams
TrialbyFire:AnOntologicalReadingofKatharsis...................... 525
SvetlaSlaveva-Griffin
“Harmonizing”Aristotle’sCategoriesandPlato’sParmenidesbefore
theBackgroundofNaturalPhilosophy ............................. 543
GeraldBechtle
ChristiansagainstMatter:ABouquetforBishopBerkeley.............. 569
MarkEdwards
ProclusagainsttheGnostics?SomeRemarksonaSubtleAllusionin
theTimaeus-CommentaryconcerningCavesandCages ........... 581
BenjaminGleede
