5 In view of the currently mounting doubts about Hippolytus of Rome as the author of this
heresiological work (cf. Simonetti 2000), I shall refer to it only by its conventional title …

In the second half of the 20th century, a fascinating revival of ancient Gnostic ideas in
American popular culture could be observed. One of the major streams through which …

Building on the work of Tertullian and Paul and The Apostolic Fathers and Paul, this volume
continues a series of specially commissioned studies by leading voices in New …

Die gnostischen Apokalypsen gehören zum Bereich apokalyptischer Literatur des
Judentums und des Christentums. Der genaue Umfang des Korpus gnostischer …

Is the Nag Hammadi Apocalypse of Paul a Valentinian text? Many would say no, few would
say yes. The Valentinian Temple brings together all the available evidence to produce a …

Hollywood has released many works that incorporated themes and ideas most typically
linked with ancient Gnosticism. This chapter looks at the rulers of the illusory worlds that …

In its most familiar form, the Christian story is synonymous with the story of the Christian
Bible, or at least with the key moments of the biblical narrative as identified by creeds …

Inconvenient issues still very much haunt the cluster of texts that today are often classified as
“Sethian.” 1 There are the very well-known and fundamental questions of precisely how one …

This thesis seeks to demonstrate the Apocalypse of Paul's position within the broader
Valentinian literary corpus from the Nag Hammadi codices. Previous scholars, notably …

Unlike other recent studies, Plotinus the Master and the Apotheosis of Imperial Platonism is
critical of Plotinus, and in particular of his version of Platonism, here described as “Imperial.” …