GNOSTICISM, JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY

Aland, B.

  • Gnosis: Festschrift fur Hans Jonas;

Barnstone, Willis / Ed. Marvin Meyer

  • Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds - Pagan, Jewish, Christian, Mandean, Manichean, Islamic, and Cathar.  Shambala, 2006, ISBN 1590301994. * 

Eliade, Mircea. . ed. .  1987.

  • The Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company: pp.566-579

Bentley Layton, ed.,

  • The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation . New York: Doubleday, 1995. 

Ehrman, Bart D.

  • Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew . New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 
  • Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Make It into the New Testament . New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 

Filoramo, Giovanni.

  • A History of Gnosticism. Trans. A. Alcock. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.

Foerster, Werner.

  • Gnosis. Vol. 1, Patristic Evidence. Trans. R. McL. Wilson; Oxford: Clarendon, 1972.
  • Gnosis: A Selection of Gnostic Texts

Grant, R M  . ed.,. 

  • Gnosticism: A Source Book of Heretical Writings from the Early Christian Period;
  • Gnosticism and Early Christianity,

Jonas, Hans,

  • The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Birth of Christianity. 2nd Edition. Boston: Beacon Press, 1963.

Gruenwald, Ithamar.

  • From apocalypticism to Gnosticism : studies in apocalypticism, Merkavah mysticism, and Gnosticism. Frankfurt am Main/ New York : P. Lang, c. 1988.

Hanegraaff , Wouter J. . Ed... , Antoine Faivre . Editor. , Roelof Van Den Broek . Editor. , Jean-Pierre Brach . Editor. 

  • Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism,  2 vols. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2005-6. 

 Hedrick, Charles W., and Robert Hodgson, Jr., eds.

  • Nag Hammadi, Gnosticism and Early Christianity. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, Publishers Inc., 1986.

 Hirshman, Marc.

  • A Rivalry of Genius: Jewish and Christian Biblical Interpretation in Late Antiquity. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996

de Lange, Nicholas R. M.

  • Origen and the Jews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Layton, Bentley.

  • Gnostic Scriptures. Garden City: Doubleday, 1987. \
  • ed. The Rediscovery of Gnosticism. Vol. 2, Sethian Gnosticism. Leiden: Brill, 1981.

Lieu, Samuel N.C.

  • Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Vol 118 . Leiden: Brill, 1997. 
  • Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China: A Historical Survey . Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985. .

Logan, A. H. B., and A. J. M. Wedderburn,

  •  eds. The New Testament and Gnosis: Essays in Honour of Robert McL. Wilson. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1983.

Longenecker, Richard N., and Merrill C. Tenney, eds.

  • New Dimensions in New Testament Study. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1974.

Longenecker,  ed. R N + M C Tenney;

  •  New Dimensions in New Testament Study ADD,

Pagels, Elaine.

  • The Gnostic Gospels;
  • The Gnostic Paul: Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline Letters. 1992.
  • The Gnostic Gospels . New York: Vintage, 1989. 

Pheme Perkins,

  • Gnosticism and the New Testament . Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993. .

Pearson, Birger, A.

Birger A. Pearson, ed.,

  • Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity, Studies in Antiquity and Christianity . Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990. 
  • Gnosticism and Christianity in Roman and Coptic Egypt, Studies in Antiquity & Christianity . T&T Clark, 2004. 
  • Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990.
  • `Jewish Elements in Gnosticism and the Development of Gnostic Self-Definition.' In Jewish and Christian Self-Definition. I. The Shaping of Christianity in the Second and Third Centuries, pp. 1: 151-60. Edited by E. P. Sanders. 3 vols. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980.

Perkins, Pheme.

  • “Apocalypse of Adam: Genre and Function of a Gnostic Apocalpse.” CBQ 39 . 1977.  382-95.
  • “Gnostic Christologies and the New Testament.” CBQ 43 . 1981.  590-606.
  • The Gnostic Dialogue. New York: Paulist, 1980.
  • Gnosticism and the New Testament. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.
  • “Irenaeus and the Gnostics.” VC 30 . 1976.  193-200.
  • “Johannine Traditions in Ap. Jas. . CG I, 2. .” JBL 101 . 1982.  403-14.
  •  “Logos Christologies in the Nag Hammadi Codices.” VC 35 . 1981.  379-96.
  • “New Testament Christologies in Gnostic Transformation.” In The Future of Early Christianity: Essays in Honor of Helmut Koester. Ed. Birger Pearson, 433-41. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1984.
  • “On the Origin of the World . CG II, 5. : A Gnostic Physics.” VC 34 . 1980.  36-46.
  •  “Pauline Anthropology in the Light of Nag Hammadi.” CBQ 48 . 1986.  512-22.

Petrement, Simone.

  •  Separate God: The Esoteric Christianity of Gnosticism. HBk. 1990  ISBN 0060665017 *

Robinson, James M., ed.

  • The Nag Hammadi Library in English. 3d ed. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988.
  •  ed., The Nag Hammadi Library, 3rd edition . San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1988.
  • The Coptic Gnostic Library: A Complete Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices, 5 Vol. Rep.  Leiden: Brill, 2000.

Rudolf, Kurt.

  • Gnosis. Trans. P. W. Coxon and K. H. Kuhn. Ed. R. McL. Wilson; San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1983.
  • Gnosis. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark Limited. 1983.
  • Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism . San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1987. 

Scholer, D. M.

  • Nag Hammadi Bibliography 1948 - 1969;
  • “Bibliographia Gnostica: Supplementum XXII.” NovT 36.1 . 1994.  58-96.

Segal, Alan.

  • Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports About Christianity and Gnosticism. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977.

Siker, Jeffrey S.

  • “Gnostic Views on Jews and Christians in the Gospel of Philip.” NovT 31 . 1989.  275-88.

Schmithals, Walter,

  • Gnosticism in Corinth
  • Paul and the Gnostics;

Scholer, David M. ed.,

  • Gnosticism in Early Christianity, Studies in Early Christianity 5 . New York: Garland Publishing, 1993. .

Turner, John D.  & Anne McGuire, ed.,

  • The Nag Hammadi Library After Fifty Years: Proceedings of the 1995 Society of Biblical Literature Commemoration, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 44 . Leiden: Brill, 1997. .

Van Den Broek, R. + M.J. Vermaseren + Gilles Quispel,

  • Studies in Gnosticism & Hellenistic Religions Presented to Gilles Quispel on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. HBk.  Leiden: E.J. Brill 1981 622pp.   [Rep.Brill Academic Publishers   August 1997] ISBN  900406376 5 * 

Wilson, Robert McL.

  • Gnosis and the New Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968.
  • The Gnostic Problem and Gnosis and the New Testament;

E Yamauchi,

  • Pre - Christian Gnosticism

Wink, W.

  • Cracking the Gnostic Code. The Powers in Gnosticism. SBL Monograph Series 46. Atlanta: Scholars, 1993.

Yates, Roy.

  • “Colossian and Gnosis.” JSNT 27 . 1986.  49-68.

Jason David BeDuhn,

  • The Manichaean Body: In Discipline and Ritual . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.  

Giovanni Filoramo,

  • A History of Gnosticism . Cambridge: Blackwell, 1991.  

Iaian Gardner & Samuel N.C. Lieu, ed.,

  • Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.  

James E. Goehring,

  •  “The Provenance of the Nag Hammadi Codices once more,” Studia Patristica 35 . 2001.  234-256.

Hans J. Klimkeit,

  • Gnosis on the Silk Road . San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993.

Paul Mirecki & Jason BeDuhn, ed.,

  • Emerging from Darkness: Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 43 . Leiden: Brill, 1997.

Simone Pétremont,

  • A Separate God: The Origin and Teachings of Gnosticism . San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1990.  

Richard Valantasis,

  • The Gospel of Thomas, New Testament Readings . New York: Routledge, 1997. .

Johannes Van Oort, Otto Wermelinger & Gregor Wurst, ed.,

  • Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West . Leiden: Brill, 2001. .

Michael Allen Williams,

  • Rethinking ‘Gnosticism’: An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.  paperback, $27. An important revisionist argument.

 

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