Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica : : collected essays of Gilles Quispel / / edited by Johannes van Oort ; with additional prefaces by April DeConick and Jean-Pierre Mahé.

• Author: Quispel, Gilles.
• TeilnehmendeR: Oort, J. van
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 55.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (896 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Essays.; Preliminary Materials /; Chapter One. Christliche gnosis, jüdische gnosis, hermetische gnosis /; Chapter Two. Coptic gnostic writings /; Chapter Three. The Demiurge in the Apocryphon of John /; Chapter Four. A Diatessaron reading in a latin manichaean codex /; Chapter Five. The Diatessaron in Iceland and Norway /; Chapter Six. The Diatessaron of Romanos /; Chapter Seven. A general introduction to the study of the Diatessaron of Tatian /; Chapter Eight. Genius and Spirit /; Chapter Nine. Gnosis als Erfahrung /; Chapter Ten. Gnosis and Culture /; Chapter Eleven. Gnosticism /; Chapter Twelve. The gospel of Thomas revisited /; Chapter Thirteen. The gospel of Thomas and the trial of Jesus /; Chapter Fourteen. Das Hebräerevangelium im gnostischen Evangelium nach Maria /; Chapter Fifteen. Hermann Hesse and gnosis /; Chapter Sixteen. Mani et la tradition évangélique des judéo-chrétiens /; Chapter Seventeen. Marcion and the text of the New Testament /; Chapter Eighteen. Note sur “Basilide” /; Chapter Nineteen. Origen and the valentinian gnosis /; Chapter Twenty. Saint Augustin et l’évangile selon Thomas /; Chapter Twenty-One. Some remarks on the gospel of Thomas /; Chapter Twenty-Two. The study of encratism: a historical survey /; Chapter Twenty-Three. Valentinian gnosis and the Apocryphon of John /; Chapter Twenty-Four. Valentinus and the gnostikoi /; Chapter Twenty-Five. African christianity before Minucius Felix and Tertullian /; Chapter Twenty-Six. Ezekiel 1,26 in jewish mysticism and gnosis /; Chapter Twenty-Seven. The fourth gospel and the judaic gospel tradition /; Chapter Twenty-Eight. Jewish christian gospel tradition /; Chapter Twenty-Nine. Jewish gnosis and mandaean gnosticism /; Chapter Thirty. A jewish source of Minucius Felix /; Chapter Thirty-One. Judaism and gnosis /; Chapter Thirty-Two. Jung and Pauli /; Chapter Thirty-Three. Meristae /; Chapter Thirty-Four . Plotinus and the jewish gnostikoi /; Chapter Thirty-Five. The muslim Jesus /; Chapter Thirty-Six. African christianity before Tertullian /; Chapter Thirty-Seven. Anima naturaliter christiana /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 1282396323; 9786612396328; 9047441826
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Johannes van Oort ; with additional prefaces by April DeConick and Jean-Pierre Mahé.

This volume brings together a rich and varied collection of essays by Gilles Quispel (1916-2006), Professor of the History of the Early Church at Utrecht University from 1951 until his retirement in 1983. During his illustrious career, Professor Quispel was also visiting Professor at Harvard University in 1964/65, and visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven from 1969 until 1974. The fifty essays collected in this volume testify to most of the prominent themes from Professor Quispel’s scholarly career: the writings of the Nag Hammadi library in general and the Gospel of Thomas in particular; Tatian’s Diatessaron and its influences; the Hermetica ; Mani and Manichaeism; the Jewish origins of Gnosticism; and Gnosis and the future of Christianity. This volume also makes a number of his less known earlier publications (mainly presented under the heading ‘Catholica’) available to the international community. Until shortly before he died, Professor Quispel remained active in his study of the Gospel of Thomas . He had been one of the first to acquire the Coptic text of the Gospel of Thomas , of which he published the first translation in 1959 and his final translation in 2005. He was also active in researching the Diatessaron , and Valentinus ‘the Gnostic’. One of his most recent essays – published for the first time in this volume – is on ‘the Muslim Jesus.’