Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica : collected essays of Gilles Quispel / edited by Johannes van Oort ; with additional prefaces by April DeConick & Jean-Pierre Mahe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quispel, Gilles.

Contributor:

Oort, J. van (Johannes)

Series:

Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 55.

Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, 0929-2470 ; v. 55

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gnosticism.

Judaism.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (896 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Quispel’s scholarly career: the writings of the Nag Hammadi library in general and the Gospel of Thomas in particular; Tatian’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 ‘Catholica’) 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 ‘the Gnostic’. One of his most recent essays – published for the first time in this volume – is on ‘the Muslim Jesus.’

Contents:

Part I, Gnostica. Christliche Gnosis, judische Gnosis, hermetische Gnosis

Coptic Gnostic writings

The demiurge in the Apocryphon of John

A diatessaron reading in a Latin Manichaean codex

The diatessaron in Iceland and Norway / co-author, Andrea van Arkel-De Leeuw van Weenen

The diatessaron of Romanos

A general introduction to the study of the diatessaron of Tatian

Genius and spirit

Gnosis als Erfahrung

Gnosis and culture

Gnosticism

The Gospel of Thomas revisited

The Gospel of Thomas and the trial of Jesus

Das Hebraerevangelium im gnostischen Evangelium nach Maria

Hermann Hesse and Gnosis

Mani et la tradition evangelique des judeo-chretiens

Marcion and the text of the New Testament

Note sur "Basilide"

Origen and the Valentinian gnosis

Saint Augustin et l'Evangile selon Thomas

Some remarks on the Gospel of Thomas

The study of encratism : a historical survey

Valentinian gnosis and the Apocryphon of John

Valentinus and the gnostikoi

Part II, Judaica. African Christianity before Minucius Felix and Tertullian

Ezekiel 1,26 in Jewish mysticism and gnosis

The Fourth Gospel and the Judaic Gospel tradition

Jewish Christian Gospel tradition

Jewish gnosis and Mandaean gnosticism : some reflections on the writing Bronte

A Jewish source of Minucius Felix

Judaism and gnosis

Jung and Pauli

Meristae

Plotinus and the Jewish gnostikoi

The Muslim Jesus

Part III, Catholica. African Christianity before Tertullian

Anima naturaliter christiana

An apocryphal variant in Macarius

Apocalyptics and gnosis from Job to Jan van Eyck

The Epistle to the Laodiceans : a Marcionite forgery

Eros and agape in the Gospel of John

L'Extase de Saint Paul

God is love

Gregory of Nyssa and mysticism

The Holy Spirit according to the early church

The Holy Spirit as woman in Apocalypse 12

Johannesevangelium und Gnosis

Time and history in Catholic Christianity, especially Augustine

Utrecht and the conversion of Germany : Liudger and the Gospel of Thomas

Part IV, Epilogue. Gnosis and the future of Christian religion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-39632-3

9786612396328

90-474-4182-6

OCLC:

568738204

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004139459.i-870 DOI