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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.

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Author:   Kevin Corrigan ,  Tuomas Rasimus
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   82
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.240kg
ISBN:  

9789004223837

ISBN 10:   9004223835
Pages:   756
Publication Date:   25 July 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

'Great FS for a great scholar, excellently edited by a team led by Tuomas Rasimus: Sidnie White Crawford, John D. Turner.' J. van Oort, Vigiliae Christianae 68 (2014)

'Great FS for a great scholar, excellently edited by a team led by Tuomas Rasimus: Sidnie White Crawford, John D. Turner.' J. van Oort, Vigiliae Christianae 68 (2014) 'ein aufschlussreicher und instruktiver Band' Barbara Aland, Theologische Literaturzeitung 140 (2015)

Author Information

Kevin Corrigan is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Director of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. His recent works include Evagrius and Gregory: Mind, Soul and Body in the 4th Century (Ashgate, 2009), Religion and Philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions (ed. with J. D. Turner and P. Wakefield, Akademia Verlag, 2012), and Reason, Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought (Ashgate, 2013). Tuomas Rasimus is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, and an Associate Professor at Université Laval. He has published on Gnosticism, Early Christianity and Neoplatonism, and his recent works include Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking (Brill, 2009), The Legacy of John: Second-Century Reception of the Fourth Gospel (ed., Brill, 2010), and Stoicism in Early Christianity (ed. with T. Engberg-Pedersen and I. Dunderberg, Baker Academic, 2010).

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