The Rediscovery of Gnosticism (2 vols.): Proceedings of the Conference at Yale March 1978: Numen Book Series, cartea 41

VOLUME I: THE SCHOOL OF VALENTINUS

Preface
Program of the Conference
Staff and Sponsoring Committee
Abbreviations

Part One. Plenary Sessions: Gnosticism and Western Tradition
Henry Chadwick, "The Domestication of Gnosis"
Gilles Quispel, "Gnosis and Psychology"
Carsten Colpe, "The Challenge of Gnostic Thought for Philosophy, Alchemy, and Literature"
Harold Bloom, "Lying Against Time: Gnosis, Poetry, Criticism"

Part Two. Seminar on Valentinian Gnosticism
G.C. Stead, "In Search of Valentinus"
Ugo Bianchi, "Religio-Historical Observations on Valentinianism"
Gilles Quispel, "Valentinian Gnosis and the Apocryphon of John"
R.McL.Wilson, "Valentinianism and the Gospel of Truth"
Rowan Greer, "The Dog and the Mushrooms: Irenaeus's View of the Valentinians Assessed"
John Whittaker, "Self-Generating Principles in Second-Century Gnostic Systems"
Michel Tardieu, "La gnose Valentinienne et les oracles Chaldaïques"
Helmut Koester, "Gnostic Writings as Witnesses for the Development of the Sayings Tradition"
Elaine Pagels, "Gnostic and Orthodox Views of Christ's Passion: Paradigms for the Christian's Response to Persecution?"
Joel Fineman, "Gnosis and the Piety of Metaphor: The Gospel of Truth"
Barbara Aland, "Gnosis und Christentum"
Concluding Discussion

Part Three. Research Papers: Valentinianism, Platonism, Iconography
John Dillon, "The Descent of the Soul in Middle Platonic and Gnostic Theory"
Dominic J. O'Meara, "Gnosticism and the Making of the World in Plotinus"
William R. Schoedel, "Gnostic Monism and the Gospel of Truth"
Jean-Daniel Kaestli, "Valentinisme italien et valentinisme oriental: leurs divergences à propos de la nature du corps de Jésus"
James F. McCue, "Conflicting Versions of Valentinianism? Irenaeus and the Excerpta ex Theodoto"
Marguerite Harl, "Les 'mythes' Valentiniens de la création et de l'eschatologie dans le langage d'Origène: le mot hypothesis"
André Méhat, "'Vraie' et 'fausse' gnose d'après Clément d'Alexandrie"
Paul Corby Finney, "Did Gnostics Make Pictures?"


VOLUME II: SETHIAN GNOSTICISM

Preface
Abbreviations

Part Four. Seminar on Sethian Gnosticism
Robert Kraft, "Philo on Seth: Was Philo Aware of Traditions Which Exalted Seth and His Progeny?"
Michael E. Stone, "Report on Seth Traditions in the Armenian Adam Books"
Birger A. Pearson, "The Figure of Seth in Gnostic Literature"
Discussion: Session 1
George W.E. Nickelsburg, "Some Related Traditions in the Apocalypse of Adam, the Books of Adam and Eve, and 1 Enoch"
Carsten Colpe, "Sethian and Zoroastrian Ages of the World"
Discussion: Session 2
Frederik Wisse, "Stalking Those Elusive Sethians"
Kurt Rudolph, "Die 'Sethianische' Gnosis – Eine häresiologische Fiktion?"
Discussion: Session 3
Hans-Martin Schenke, "The Phenomenon and Significance of Gnostic Sethianism"
Alexander Böhlig, "Triade und Trinität in den Schriften von Nag Hammadi"
Discussion: Session 4
James M. Robinson, "Sethians and Johannine Thought: The Trimorphic Protennoia and the Prologue of the Gospel of John"
Discussion: Session 5
Concluding Discussion

Part Five. Research Papers
Nils A. Dahl, "The Arrogant Archon and the Lewd Sophia: Jewish Traditions in Gnostic Revolt"
Ithamar Gruenwald, "Aspects of the Jewish-Gnostic Controversy"
Albert Henrichs, "Literary Criticism of the Cologne Mani Codex"
Ludwig Koenen, "From Baptism to the Gnosis of Manichaeism"
Klaus Koschorke, "Gnostic Instructions on the Organization of the Congregation: The Tractate Interpretation of Knowledge from CG XI"
M. Marcovich, "The Naassene Psalm in Hippolytus (Haer. 5.10.2)"
Louis Painchaud, "Le cadre scolaire des traités de l'Ame et le Deuxième Traité du Grand Seth (CG VII, 2)"
John H. Sieber, "The Barbelo Aeon as Sophia in Zostrianos and Related Tractates"
Morton Smith, "The History of the Term Gnostikos"
Gedaliahu G. Stroumsa, "Aher: A Gnostic"
Michael A. Williams, "Stability as a Soteriological Theme in Gnosticism"

Participants of the Conference
Indexes to Volumes 1 and 2
Ancient Texts and Authors
Modern Scholars

'...indispensable...'
B. Drewery, Journal of Theological Studies, 1983.
'...an important treasure-trove of scholarship on Gnosticism...'
Birger A. Pearson, Religious Studies Review, 1982.