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Ausgabe:

Juli/August/2022

Spalte:

670–672

Kategorie:

Religionswissenschaft

Autor/Hrsg.:

Markschies, Christoph, and Einar Thomassen [Eds.]

Titel/Untertitel:

Valentinianism: New Studies.

Verlag:

Leiden u. a.: Brill 2019. XI, 510 S. = Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 96. Geb. EUR 143,00. ISBN 9789004413719.

Rezensent:

Guy G. Stroumsa

This very rich collection of nineteen articles on various aspects of Valentinianism represents the end product of an international con-ference held in Rome in 2013 with the participation of many among the best scholars in the field, from both Europe and North America. The two convenors of that conference and editors of this book, both distinguished scholars of Valentinian texts and traditions, rightly thought that time was ripe to take stock of the state of research. A generation ago, another international conference, held at Yale University in 1978 under the leadership of Bentley Layton, when the Coptic texts of Nag Hammadi were being made available, had focused on Valentinianism as well as on »Sethianism«, as the two main trends of Gnosticism in the first Christian centuries. The ...


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