…msterdam (2004), and diving into the world of early Christianity and especially Gnosticism and the Coptic Gnostic texts discovered at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945, topics that occupied the bulk of my doctoral studies at Yale University (Religious Studies, Ph.D., 2011). As a postdo…

…ag Hammadi Library Gnosis Archive Library Bookstore Index Web Lectures Ecclesia Gnostica Gnostic Society About the Nag Hammadi Library (The Nag Hammadi Scriptures) The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient books (called "codices") containing over fifty texts, was …

…intertextual relations and will be employed here. Download The Sethians and the Gnostics of Plotinus This is a chapter in the forthcoming The Routledge Companion to Early Christian Philosophy, edite... more This is a chapter in the forthcoming The Routledge Companion to Early Chr…

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…hat the Gospel of Thomas (abbreviated, GTh ) was a late-second or third century Gnostic forgery. Scholars currently involved in Thomas studies now largely reject that view, though such arguments will still be heard from orthodox apologists and are encountered in some of the earli…

…ent them out another way?" — James ii. 14, 25. Clement describes Basilides, the Gnostic, as "a philosopher devoted to the contemplation of divine things." This very appropriate expression may be applied to many of the founders of the more important sects which later were all engu…

…tiche a Giustino, dai primi vangeli agli Atti apocrifi, dalle lettere paoline a gnosticismo e montanismo, si dipana un percorso attraverso una fase particolarmente viva e plurale, rispetto alla quale il costituirsi della cosiddetta “proto-ortodossia”, alla fine del II secolo, seg…

…, quantum physics, cosmic consciousness, non-locality, panpsychism. Was Jesus a Gnostic? , 2026 This study explores the radically alternative portrayal of Jesus in the Nag Hammadi texts (2nd–4t... more This study explores the radically alternative portrayal of Jesus in the Nag Ha…

…f Upper Egypt. Eschewing the modern classification of the Nag Hammadi texts as "Gnostic,” the authors approach the codices and their ancient owners from the perspective of the diverse monastic culture of late antique Egypt and situate them in the context of the ongoing controvers…

…rl-Stéphan Bouthillette Metaphysics as Therapy. List-Making and Renunciation in Gnostic Yogas Springer , 2025 This book examines the significance of metaphysical list-making as a determining feature of ‘spir... more This book examines the significance of metaphysical list-making …

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…tiche a Giustino, dai primi vangeli agli Atti apocrifi, dalle lettere paoline a gnosticismo e montanismo, si dipana un percorso attraverso una fase particolarmente viva e plurale, rispetto alla quale il costituirsi della cosiddetta “proto-ortodossia”, alla fine del II secolo, seg…

…e Manichaean, spent much of his intellectual and mental life among believers in Gnostic thought, and was influenced by these beliefs when the Manichaeism was formed by him. An important and widespread part of Mani's teachings and beliefs, is the myth of creation that included the…

… 2024. Download Dylan Burns and Eduard Iricinschi, "Preface: Manichaica-Judaica-Gnostica 1: Polemics, Geographies, and Ethics," Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies, 9 (2024): 143–158 Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies , 2024 The goals of this special issue of Gnosis: Journal of Gn…

…pigraphic Gospel of Judas have entered the text with preconceived notions about gnostic-leaning texts featuring Jesus and his disciples and the role Jesus plays in these types of texts. Focused more on the figure of Judas, scholars have presupposed a gnostic Jesus, a Jesus who br…