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.

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.’

Table of Contents

Preliminary Materials / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter One. Christliche gnosis, jüdische gnosis, hermetische gnosis / Ferdinand Christian Baur -- Chapter Two. Coptic gnostic writings / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Three. The Demiurge in the Apocryphon of John / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Four. A Diatessaron reading in a latin manichaean codex / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Five. The Diatessaron in Iceland and Norway / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Six. The Diatessaron of Romanos / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Seven. A general introduction to the study of the Diatessaron of Tatian / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Eight. Genius and Spirit / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Nine. Gnosis als Erfahrung / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Ten. Gnosis and Culture / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Eleven. Gnosticism / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Twelve. The gospel of Thomas revisited / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Thirteen. The gospel of Thomas and the trial of Jesus / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Fourteen. Das Hebräerevangelium im gnostischen Evangelium nach Maria / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Fifteen. Hermann Hesse and gnosis / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Sixteen. Mani et la tradition évangélique des judéo-chrétiens / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Seventeen. Marcion and the text of the New Testament / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Eighteen. Note sur “Basilide” / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Nineteen. Origen and the valentinian gnosis / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Twenty. Saint Augustin et l’évangile selon Thomas / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Twenty-One. Some remarks on the gospel of Thomas / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Twenty-Two. The study of encratism: a historical survey / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Twenty-Three. Valentinian gnosis and the Apocryphon of John / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Twenty-Four. Valentinus and the gnostikoi / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Twenty-Five. African christianity before Minucius Felix and Tertullian / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Twenty-Six. Ezekiel 1,26 in jewish mysticism and gnosis / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Twenty-Seven. The fourth gospel and the judaic gospel tradition / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Twenty-Eight. Jewish christian gospel tradition / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Twenty-Nine. Jewish gnosis and mandaean gnosticism / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Thirty. A jewish source of Minucius Felix / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Thirty-One. Judaism and gnosis / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Thirty-Two. Jung and Pauli / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Thirty-Three. Meristae / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Thirty-Four . Plotinus and the jewish gnostikoi / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Thirty-Five. The muslim Jesus / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Thirty-Six. African christianity before Tertullian / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort -- Chapter Thirty-Seven. Anima naturaliter christiana / G. Quispel and J. Van Oort.