CONTENTS
PREFACES
Johannes van Oort Preface ix April D. DeConick Gnostic Letters from Bilthoven xv Jean-Pierre Mahé Gilles Quispel ou l'intériorité de la Gnose xxiii
FAKT1 I: GNOSTICA
Chapter One Christliche Gnosis, jüdische Gnosis, hermetische Gnosis
Chapter Two Coptic Gnostic Writings 37
Chapter Three The Demiurge in the Apocryphon of John 43
Chapter Four A Diatessaron Reading in a Latin Manichaean Codex 77
Chapter Five The Diatessaron in Iceland and Norway 83
Co-author: Andrea van Arkel-De Leeuw van Weenen
Chapter Six The Diatessaron of Romanos 85
Chapter Seven A General Introduction to the Study of the
Diatessaron of Tatian 93
Chapter Eight Genius and Spirit 103
Chapter Nine Gnosis als Erfahrung 119
Chapter Ten Gnosis and Culture 141
Chapter Eleven Gnosticism 155 CONTENTS VI
Chapter Twelve The Gospel of Thomas Revisited 175
Chapter Thirteen The Gospel of Thomas and the '1 rial of r ...... 227 Jesus • ••• '•'• A^' Chapter Fourteen Das Hebräerevangelium im gnostischen Evangelium nach Maria 237
Chapter Fifteen Hermann Hesse and Gnosis ...... 243
Chapter Sixteen Mani et la tradition évangélique des judéo-chrétiens • • 263
Chapter Seventeen Marcion and the Text of the
New Testament 271
Chapter Eighteen Note sur "Basilide" ...... 285
Chapter Nineteen Origen and the Valentinian Gnosis ...... 289
Chapter Twenty Saint Augustin et l'Évangile selon Thomas 305 Chapter Twenty-One Some remarks on the Gospel of Thomas 311
Chapter Twenty-Two The Study of Encratism: A Historical Survey , 329
Chapter Twenty-Three Valentinian Gnosis and the Apocryphon of John 365
Chapter Twenty-Four Valentinus and the Gnostikoi 381
PARTII:JUDAICA
Chapter Twenty-Five African Christianity before Minucius I'clix and lertullian 389 (X)NTENTS VU
Chapter Twenty-Six Ezekicl 1,26 in Jewish Mysticism and Gnosis 461
Chapter Twenty-Seven The .Fourth Gospel and the Judaic
Gospel J. radition 475
Chapter Twenty-Eight Jewish Christian Gospel Tradition ..... 481
Chapter Twenty-Nine Jewish Gnosis and Mandaean
Gnosticism. Some reflections on the Writing Bronte ...... 487
Chapter Thirty A Jewish Source of Minucius Felix 529
Chapter Thirty-One Judaism and Gnosis ...... 539
Chapter Thirty-Two Jung and Pauli 567
Chapter Thirty-Three Meristae 573
Chapter Thirty-Four Plotinus and the Jewish Gnostikoi 583
Chapter Thirty-Five The Muslim Jesus 627
PART III: CATHOLICA
Chapter Thirty-Six African Christianity before Tertullian ..... 665
Chapter Thirty-Seven Anima naturaliter Christiana 671
Chapter Thirty-Eight An Apocryphal Variant in Macarius 679 Chapter Thirty-Nine Apocalyptics and Gnosis from Job to Jan van Eyck 685
Chapter Forty The Epistle to the Laodiceans: A Marcionite Forgery 689
Chapter Forty-One Eros and Agape in the Gospel of John 695 vin CONTENTS
Chapter Forty-Two L'Extase de Saint Paul 699
Chapter Forty-Three (rod is Love 715
Chapter Forty-Four Gregory of Nyssa and Mysticism 733
Chapter Forty-Five The Holy Spirit According to the Early Church 739
Chapter Forty-Six The Holy Spirit as Woman in Apocalypse 12 749
Chapter Forty-Seven Johannesevangelium und Griosis 753
Chapter Forty-Eight Time and History in Catholic Christianity, ('specially Augustine 785
Chapter Forty-Nine Utrecht and the Conversion of Germany. Liudger and the Gospel of Thomas 807
PART IV: EPILOGUE
Chapter Fifty Gnosis and the Future of Christian eion 823
Index of Biblical Texts 833 Index of Other Ancient Texts 838 Index of Names and Subjects 856