The Rediscovery of Gnosticism (2 volumes), : Proceedings of the Conference at Yale March 1978.

• Superior document: Numen Book Series ; v.41
• Author: International Conference on Gnosticism New Haven, Conn.); Bentley Layton (Editor)
• TeilnehmendeR: Layton, Bentley.; Yale University. Department of Religious Studies.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 1981.
• Year of Publication: 1981
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Numen Book Series 41.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; The Domestication of Gnosis /; Gnosis and Psychology /; The Challenge of Gnostic Thought for Philosophy, Alchemy, and Literature /; Lying Against Time: Gnosis, Poetry, Criticism /; In Search of Valentinus /; Religio-Historical Observations on Valentinianism /; Valentinian Gnosis and the Apocryphon of John /; Valentinianism and the Gospel of Truth /; The Dog and the Mushrooms /; Self-Generating Principles in Second-Century Gnostic Systems /; La Gnose Valentinienne et les Oracles Chaldaïques /; Gnostic Writings as Witnesses for the Development of the Sayings Tradition /; Gnostic and Orthodox views of Christ’s Passion: Paradigms for the Christian’s Response to Persecution? /; Gnosis and the Piety of Metaphor: The Gospel of Truth /; Gnosis und Christentum /; Concluding Discussion --; The Descent of the Soul in Middle Platonic and Gnostic Theory /; Gnosticism and the Making of the World in Plotinus /; Gnostic Monism and the Gospel of Truth /; Valentinisme italien et valentinisme oriental: leurs divergences à propos de la nature du corps de Jésus /; Conflicting Versions of Valentinianism? Irenaeus and the Excerpta ex Theodoto /; Les «Mythes» Valentiniens de la création et de l’eschatologie dans le langage d’Origène: le mot hypothesis /; «Vraie» et «fausse» gnose d’après Clément d’Alexandrie /; Did Gnostics Make Pictures? /; Philo on Seth /; Report on Seth Traditions in the Armenian Adam Books /; The Figure of Seth in Gnostic Literature /; Discussion /; Some Related Traditions in the Apocalypse of Adam, the Books of Adam and eve, and 1 Enoch /; Sethian and Zoroastrian Ages of the World /; Stalking Those Elusive Sethians /; Die “Sethianische” Gnosis—Eine häresiologische Fiktion? /; The Phenomenon and Significance of Gnostic Sethianism /; Triade uno Trinität in den Schriften von Nag Hammadi /; Sethians and Johannine Thought /; Concluding Discussion /; The Arrogant Archon and the Lewd Sophia /; Aspects of the Jewish-Gnostic Controversy /; Literary Criticism of the Cologne Mani Codex /; From Baptism to the Gnosis of Manichaeism /; Gnostic Instructions on the Organization of the Congregation /; The Naassene Psalm in Hippolytus (Haer. 5. 10.2) /; Le cadre scolaire des traités de l’Ame et le Deuxième Traité du Grand Seth (CG VII, 2) /
• ISBN: 9004378596
• Hierarchical level: Monograph