Proceedings of the International colloquium on gnosticism, Stockholm, August 20-25, 1973

193 Pages·1977·5.291 MB·English

by  Geo Widengren, David Hellholm

Proceedings of
the International
Colloquium on
Gnosticism
Stockholm August 20—25
1973
KUNGL. VITTERHETS
HISTORIE OCH ANTIKVITETS AKADEMIEN
KUNGL. VITTERHETS
HISTORIE OCH ANTIKVITETS AKADEMIENS
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STOCKHOLM 1977

Proceedings of
the International
Colloquium on
Gnosticism
Stockholm August 20—25
1973 .
Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm, Sweden
EJ. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands
Utgivet med ans lag frän
Statens humanistiska forskningsrad
INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON GNOSTICISM
sponsored by
Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
Villagatan 3, S-114 32 Stockholm
Professor Dag Strömbäck (President)
Honorary President of the Colloquium
Professor Hans Jonas
AC-
Organizing Committee
Professor Frithiof Rundgren 5 0
Professor Torgny Säve-Söderbergh
Professor Geo Widengren
Secretariate f V . I I-
Mr. David Hellholm
Dr. Kaarina Drynjeff
Dr. Jan Hjärpe
Editor
Geo Widengren
assisted by David Hellholm
®Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien 1977
ISBN 91-7402-025-0
ISSN 0083—677X
Printed in Sweden by
Borgströms tryckeri, Motala 1977
Phototype setting by
TEXTgruppen i Uppsala AB
Contents
Preface................................................................................................................................
Program.............................................................................................................................
Participants ......................................................................................................................
Hans Jonas: A Retrospective View ...................................................................1 — 15
Ugo Bianchi: A propos de quelques discussions récentes sur la
terminologie, la définition et la méthode de l’étude du gnosticism .. 16—26
Eric Segelberg: Zidqa Brika and the Mandaean Problem..........................27—33
Barbara Aland: Gnosis und Philosophie.........................................................34—73
Jan Bergman: Kleine Beiträge zum Naassenertraktat..............................74—100
Martin Krause: Die Paraphrase des Sêem und der Bericht
Hippolyts.....................................................................................................101—110
George W. MacRae: Discourses of the Gnostic Revealer .................111—122
Jacques-É. Ménard: La Notion de Résurrection dans
PEpître à Rhèginos.....................................................................................123—131
James M. Robinson: The Three Steles of Seth and The Gnostics
of Plotinus...................................................................................................132—142
Birger A. Pearson: The Figure of Norea in Gnostic Literature .... 143—152
Marc Philonenko: La plainte des âmes dans la Koré Kosmou..........153—156
H. Ludin Jansen: Die Frage nach Tendenz und Verfasserschaft
im Poimandres............................................................................................157—163
R. McL. Wilson: The Gnostics and the Old Testament......................164—168
Hans Dieter Betz: Observations on Some Gnosticizing Passages
in Plutarch...................................................................................................169—178
Martin Krause: Bericht über zwei neue Reihen für die Nag
Hammadi Texte: die Facsimile Edition und die Nag
Hammadi Studies.......................................................................................179-180

Preface
In 1966 April 13—18 thanks to the initiative of Prof. Bianchi there was arranged
at the University of Messina, under the auspices of I.A.H.R., a magnificent confe­
rence on the Origins of Gnosticism. The Proceedings were published already in 196 7
under the tide “Le Origini dello Gnosticismo”. As is evident from the name of the
publication the conference was concerned exclusively with the origins of Gnosti­
cism. It was an idea not far away to follow up the extremely interesting Messina
conference by another colloquium on Gnosticism, even if it had to be arranged on
a much more modest scale. Accordingly an International Colloquium, sponsored
by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities, was organi­
zed August 20—25 1973, in the house of the Academy in Stockholm.
The papers presented are now published after some delay, caused on the one
hand by the wish to have as many papers published as possible, on the other hand
by the inevitably slow arrangements for publication in one of the Academy’s
series.
The Organizing Committee wishes to thank the former President of the Acade­
my Prof. Strdmback for his acdve interest and support, and also Mr. Hogner, at
that dme Director of Administration, for help in various ways.
The Committee is further much obliged to the Secretaries for their assistance,
and among them Mr. Hellholm should be mentioned with special gradtude.
That Prof. Jonas was willing to accept the post as Honorary President of the
Colloquium was a source of great satisfaction.
The participants were free to choose their subjects within the wide field of
Gnosticism. It was but natural that a certain emphasis happened to be placed on
the Copdc texts from Nag Hammadi. In that way, however, the Syrian-Egyptian
type (to use the terminology introduced by Jonas) was dominadng at the cost of
the Iranian type. To some extent Prof. Hartman’s paper “Iranian Influences in
post-exilic Judaism” was intended to compensate for this lack of balance. That
paper, however, is not published here since its content is largely identic with an­
other contribudon published by Prof. Hartman in the interval.
Geo Widengren
Editor
Program
August 20 (Monday)
18.00 Opening session.
19.30 Supper offered by the Academy (Coq rôti, Sturegatan 19).
August 21 (Tuesday)
10.00 Working session. Communications:
Hans Dieter Betz:
Observations on some Gnosticizing Passages in Plutarch.
Ugo Bianchi:
Quelques discussions récentes sur la terminologie, la définition et la méthode
de l’étude du gnosticisme.
Jan Bergman:
Zitieren—Alludieren—Etymologisieren. Einige Bemerkungen zur naasseni-
schen Exegese.
14.30 Working session. Communication:
Marc Philonenko:
La plainte des âmes dans la Koré Kosmou.
15.15 Discussion about Corpus Hermeticum esp. Poimandres.
Introduction by
Herman Ludin Jansen:
Die Frage nach Tendenz und Verfasserschaft im Poimandres.
17.00 Light Supper offered by the Organizing Committee (Coq rôti, Sturegatan 19).
20.00 The Drottningholm Theatre (W.A. Mozart: Cosi fan tutte).
August 22 (Wednesday)
10.00 Working session. Communications:
Martin Krause:
Die Paraphrase des Seem und der Bericht Hippolyts.
James M. Robinson:
The Three Steles of Seth (CG VII, 5).
Birger A. Pearson:
The Figure of Norea in Gnostic Literature.
14.30 Working session. Communications:
Jacques-É. Ménard:
La Notion de Résurrection dans PEpître à Rhéginos.
George W. MacRae:
Discourses of the Gnostic Revealer.
16.00 Discussion.
17.30 Visit to the Museum of National Antiquities (Narvavägen).
19.00 Dinner offered by the Organizing Committee (The Museum of National Antiqui­
ties).
August 23 (Thursday)
09.30 Excursion to Uppsala.
13.00 Lunch offered by the Organizing Committee (Göteborgs Nation, S:l Larsgatan
7).
Visits to Linné’s Hammarby and the castle Skânelaholm.
August 24 (Friday)
10.00 Working session. Communication:
Barbara Aland:
Die simonianische Gnosis und die Apophasis Megale.
R. McL. Wilson:
The Gnostics and the Old Testament.
14.30 Working session. Communication:
Eric Segelberg:
Zidqa brika and the Mandaean Problem.
15.15 Discussion about the question of iranian influences in postexilic Judaism as a
necessary condition for the development of gnostic ideas. Introduction by
Sven S. Hartman:
Iranian Influences in postexilic Judaism.
19.00 Dinner offered by the Organizing Committee (Brända Tomten, Stureplan).
August 25 (Saturday)
16.00 Concluding session. Communication:
Hans Jonas:
A Retrospective View.
18.00 Dinner offered by the Organizing Committee (Park Hotel, Karlavägen).