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BEYOND GNOSTICISM .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U a ib m u lo C .8 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C Dunderberg, Ismo. Beyond Gnosticism : Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus, Columbia University Press, C4635.indb i 2/4/08 8:53:51 AM .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U a ib m u lo C .8 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C Dunderberg, Ismo. Beyond Gnosticism : Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus, Columbia University Press, C4635.indb ii 2/4/08 8:53:51 AM beyond gnosticism myth, lifestyle, and society in the school of valentinus Ismo Dunderberg .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U a ib m u lo C .8 columbia university press 0 0 2 © th g new york iryp o C Dunderberg, Ismo. Beyond Gnosticism : Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus, Columbia University Press, C4635.indb iii 2/4/08 8:53:51 AM Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 2008 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dunderberg, Ismo. Beyond gnosticism : myth, lifestyle, and society in the school of Valentinus / Ismo O. Dunderberg. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-231-14172-7 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-231-51259-6 (e-book) 1. Valentinians. 2. Gnosticism. 3. Valentinus, 2nd cent. I. Title. bt1475.d86 2008 273'.1—dc22 .d 2007037911 e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisrevin Columbia Univearnsidt yd uPrraebssle b aocoikds- fareree ppraipnetre.d on permanent U a ib m u lo T is book is printed on paper with recycled content. C .8 00 Printed in the United States of America 2 © th c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 g iryp o C Dunderberg, Ismo. Beyond Gnosticism : Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus, Columbia University Press, C4635.indb iv 2/4/08 8:53:52 AM CONTENTS List of Tables ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii introduction 1 1. T e School of Valentinus After Gnosticism 14 part i. .d e vre myth, lifestyle, and the world in the se r sth fragments of valentinus g ir llA .sserP 2. Immortality as a Way of Life ytisre 35 vin U aib 3. Adam’s Frank Speech m ulo 46 C .8 0 0 2 © 4. Cosmic Sympathy and the Origin of Evil th giryp 60 o C Dunderberg, Ismo. Beyond Gnosticism : Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus, Columbia University Press, C4635.indb v 2/4/08 8:53:52 AM vi contents part ii. valentinian cosmogony, lifestyle, and other christians 5. Myth and Lifestyle for Beginners 77 6. Myth and the T erapy of Emotions 95 7. T e Creator-God and the Cosmos 119 8. Walk Like a Valentinian 134 9. Two Classes of Christians in Practice 147 part iii. myth, society, and non-christians 10. Myth, Power, and the Oppressed Church 161 11. Myth and Ethnic Boundaries .d evre 174 se r sth g ir llA conclusion .sse rP ytisre 12. Valentinian Secretiveness Reconsidered vin 191 U a ib m u lo Appendix: Remarks on the Sources of Irenaeus’s and Hippolytus’s C .80 Accounts of Valentinian T eology 197 0 2 © th Abbreviations 203 g iryp o C Dunderberg, Ismo. Beyond Gnosticism : Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus, Columbia University Press, C4635.indb vi 2/4/08 8:53:52 AM contents vii Notes 207 Bibliography 273 Index of Modern Authors 289 Index of Ancient Sources 295 Index of Subjects 303 .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U a ib m u lo C .8 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C Dunderberg, Ismo. Beyond Gnosticism : Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus, Columbia University Press, C4635.indb vii 2/4/08 8:53:52 AM .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U a ib m u lo C .8 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C Dunderberg, Ismo. Beyond Gnosticism : Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus, Columbia University Press, C4635.indb viii 2/4/08 8:53:53 AM TABLES Table 4.1. Valentinus’s Harvest and Hippolytus’s Commentary 62 Table 5.1. Arrangement of Public Speech in Antiquity and in Ptolemaeus’s L etter to Flora 80 Table 6.1. Fourfold Divisions of Passion ( pathos ) in Valentinian, Stoic, and Sethian Sources 112 Table 11.1. Cosmological T eories Presented in the Tripartite Tractate and Eugnostos 180 .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U a ib m u lo C .8 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C Dunderberg, Ismo. Beyond Gnosticism : Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus, Columbia University Press, C4635.indb ix 2/4/08 8:53:53 AM
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