Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic Religions Presented to Gilles Quispel on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

646 Pages·1981·48.62 MB·English

by  R. van den Broek

STUDIES IN GNOSTICISM
AND HELLENISTIC RELIGIONS
ETUDES PRELIMINAIRES
AUX RELIGIONS ORIENTALES
DANS L'EMPIRE ROMAIN
PUBLIEES PAR
M.J. VERMASEREN
TOME QUATRE-VINGT ET ONZIEME
STUDIES IN GNOSTICISM
AND HELLENISTIC RELIGIONS
EDITED BY
R. VAN DEN BROEK AND M.J. VERMASEREN
LEI DEN
E.l. BRILL
1981

Photograph: Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, Hilversum
STUDIES IN GNOSTICISM
AND HELLENISTIC RELIGIONS
presented to Gilles Quispel
on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday
EDITED BY
R. VAN DEN BROEK AND M. J. VERMASEREN
LEIDEN
E.l. BRILL
1981
ISBN 90 04 06376 5
Copyright 1981 by E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or
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CONTENTS
Preface . VII
List of Abbreviations XI
List of Professor Quispel's Publications
J. VAN AMERsFooRT, Traces of an Alexandrian Orphic Theogony
in the Pseudo-Clemen tines . 13
U. BIANCHI, The Religio-historical Relevance of Lk 20: 34-36 . 31
R. VAN DEN BRoEK, The Creation of Adam's Psychic Body in the
Apocryphon of John . 38
C. COLPE, Daena, Lichtjungfrau, Zweite Gestalt. Verbindungen
und Unterschiede zwischen zarathustrischer und manichiiischer
Selbst-Anschauung . 58
I. P. CULIANU, The Angels of the Nations and the Origins of
Gnostic Dualism 78
H. DORRIE, Gnostische Spuren bei Plutarch . 92
H.J. W. DRIJVERs, Odes of Solomon and Psalms of Mani.
Christians and Manichaeans in third-century Syria . 117
J. FLAMANT, Elements gnostiques dans l'reuvre de Macrobe . 131
J. FOSSUM, Samaritan Demiurgical Traditions and the Alleged
Dove Cult of the Samaritans. 143
R. M. GRANT, Charges of "Immorality" against Various Religious
Groups in Antiquity . 161
I. GRUENWALD, The Problem of Anti-Gnostic Polemic in Rabbinic
Li tera ture 171
A. GUILLAUMONT, Les semitismes dans l'Evangile selon Thomas.
Essai de classement . 190
Marguerite HARL, Pointes antignostiques d'Origene : Ie question-
nement impie des Ecritures . 205
A.F.J. KLlJN, An Analysis of the Use of the Story of the Flood
in the Apocalypse of Adam . 218
J.-P. MAHE, Le Livre d'Adam georgien . 227
J. MANSFELD, Bad World and Demiurge: A 'Gnostic' Motif
from Parmenides and Empedocles to Lucretius and Philo. 261
VI CONTENTS
G. M USSIES, Catalogues of Sins and Virtues Personified (NHC 11,5) 315
B. A. PEARSON, Jewish Elements in Corpus Hermeticum I (Poi-
mandres) . 336
A. F. SEGAL, Hellenistic Magic: Some Questions of Definition 349
Giulia SFAMENI GASPARRO, Interpretazioni gnostiche e misterio-
so fiche del mito di Attis . 376
M. T ARDIEU, Aberamenth6 . 412
M.J. VERMASEREN, L'iconographie d'Attis mourant 419
H.A.J. WEGMAN, Une anaphore incomplete? Les fragments sur
Papyrus Strasbourg Gr. 254 . 432
R. McL. WILSON, Gnosis and the Mysteries . 451
J. C. M. VAN WINDEN, "Terra autem stupida quad am erat admira
tione". Reflexions on a Remarkable Translation of Genesis
1:2a . 458
E. M. YAMAUCHI, Jewish Gnosticism? The Prologue of John,
Mandaean Parallels, and the Trimorphic Protennoia . 467
J. ZANDEE, "The Teachings of Silvanus" (NHC VII,4) and Jewish
Christianity . 498
Index of Sources . 581
Index of Names and Subjects 617
PREFACE
The studies contained in this volume were written by friends - col
leagues and pupils - of Professor Gilles Quispel as a present for his
65th birthday. In this way they want to honour the scholar and teacher
who during the last thirty-five years not only made outstanding
contributions to the study of Gnosticism himself but also stimulated
many others to do the same.
Professor Quispel was born on May 30, 1916 at Rotterdam. As a boy
he attended the municipal Gymnasium at Dordrecht, directed at that
time and long after by the unforgettable Dr. P. Hendrix, who had
written an excellent thesis on the doctrine of Basilides and was an
expert in Eastern, in particular Russian Christianity. It was Hendrix
who introduced young Quispel into the world of Greek mysteries,
Christian gnosticism and Russian mysticism, very exceptional subjects
for a Dutch Grammar School, at that time still more than nowadays.
From 1934-1941 Quispel studied classical philogy at the University
of Leiden and after that became a teacher of Greek and Latin at
Gymnasia in Enschede (1941-1945) and Leiden (1945-1951). During
his classical studies at Leiden he also began to study Theology, which
was later on continued at the University of Groningen. In 1943 he
took the degree of a Doctor Classicarum Litterarum at the University
of Utrecht, after submission of a thesis on the sources of Tertullian's
Adversus Marcionem (see the review by Borleffs in VC 1, 1947, 192-
198). During World War II Quispel made a profound study of several
gnostic systems, in particular that of Valentinus, the results of which
were published in the first post-war years. In those years he became a
regular participant in the annual Eranos meetings at Ascona, where
he met with many leading scholars, of whom Carl Gustav Jung and
Gershom Scholem had the strongest influence on him. The former
provided him with an analysis of the human soul which confirmed
his conviction that the great gnostic thinkers were moved by a real
and deep psychic experience; the latter opened his eyes for the impor
tance of Jewish mysticism and gnosticism for the study of the gnostic
movement in the ancient world. In 1948/1949 Quispel was enabled to