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WomenandKnowledgeinEarlyChristianity Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae texts and studies of early christian life and language Editors-in-Chief D.T.Runia G.Rouwhorst EditorialBoard J.denBoeft B.D.Ehrman K.Greschat J.Lössl J.vanOort C.Scholten volume144 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/vcs Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity Editedby UllaTervahauta IvanMiroshnikov OutiLehtipuu IsmoDunderberg leiden | boston TheLibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailableonlineathttp://catalog.loc.gov TypefacefortheLatin,Greek,andCyrillicscripts:“Brill”.Seeanddownload:brill.com/brill-typeface. issn0920-623x isbn978-90-04-35543-9(hardback) isbn978-90-04-34493-8(e-book) Copyright2017byKoninklijkeBrillnv,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillnvincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillHes&DeGraaf,BrillNijhoff,BrillRodopiand HoteiPublishing. 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Contents Contributors vii WomenandKnowledgeinEarlyChristianity:AnIntroduction 1 OutiLehtipuuandIsmoDunderberg part 1 WomenandKnowledgeinSocial-HistoricalContexts 1 WomenandIndependentReligiousSpecialistsinSecond-Century Rome 21 NicolaDenzeyLewis 2 “SheDestroyedMultitudes”:Marcellina’sGroupinRome 39 H.GregorySnyder 3 SomeRemarksonLiterateWomenfromRomanEgypt 62 ErjaSalmenkivi part 2 AfterlivesofWomeninBiblicalNarratives 4 Women,Angels,andDangerousKnowledge:TheMythofthe WatchersintheApocryphonofJohnandItsMonastic Manuscript-Context 75 ChristianH.Bull 5 JezebelinJewishandChristianTradition 108 TuomasRasimus 6 MaryandtheOtherFemaleCharactersintheProtevangeliumof James 133 PetriLuomanen 7 WhatHappenedtoMary?WomenNamedMaryintheMeadowof JohnMoschus 154 UllaTervahauta vi contents part 3 WomeninAncientIntellectualDiscourse 8 “ForWomenareNotWorthyofLife”:ProtologyandMisogynyin GospelofThomasSaying114 175 IvanMiroshnikov 9 “Women”and“Heresy”inPatristicDiscoursesandModern Studies 187 SilkePetersen 10 AstrologicalDeterminism,FreeWill,andDesireAccordingtoThecla (St.Methodius,Symposium8.15–16) 206 DylanM.Burns 11 MonasticExegesisandtheFemaleSoulintheExegesisonthe Soul 221 HugoLundhaug part 4 TheFemininePrincipleinMythandPhilosophy 12 Life,KnowledgeandLanguageinClassicGnosticLiterature: ReconsideringtheRoleoftheFemaleSpiritualPrincipleand Epinoia 237 TildeBakHalvgaard 13 “Wisdom,OurInnocentSister”:ReflectionsonaMytheme 253 MichaelA.Williams 14 TheVirginThatBecameMale:FemininePrinciplesinPlatonicand GnosticTexts 291 JohnD.Turner Bibliography 325 IndexofAncientandMedievalSources 362 Contributors TildeBakHalvgaard is Assistant Professor in New Testament Studies, University of Copenhagen. HeracademicinterestscoverNewTestament,earlyChristianity,thereception of Paulinecosmology,NagHammadiwritings,epistemology,andtheancient philosophy of language. She is the author of LinguisticManifestationsinthe TrimorphicProtennoiaandtheThunder:PerfectMind (Brill,2016)andseveral articlesonthereceptionoftheJohannineLogosintheTrimorphicProtennoia andtheconceptoffullnessinPaulandthePaulinetradition. ChristianH.Bull isMarieCurieResearchfellow,ResearcherattheUniversityof Oslo,andVis- iting Post-doctoral Research Associate at Princeton University. His research interestsincludeHermetism,lateAntiquereligions,andCopticliteratureand apocrypha.Heiscurrentlyrevisinghisdissertation,“TheTraditionofHermes: The Egyptian Priestly Figure as a Teacher of Hellenized Wisdom,” for publi- cation in the Brill book series Religions in the Graeco-Roman World. He is theco-editorof MysteryandSecrecyintheNagHammadiCollectionandOther AncientLiterature:IdeasandPractices(Brill,2012). DylanM.Burns is Research Associate at the Egyptological Seminar at the Free University of Berlin. Co-chair of the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism program unit at the Societyof BiblicalLiterature,heistheauthorof Apocalypseof theAlienGod: PlatonismandtheExileofSethianGnosticism(UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress, 2014),collaborativeeditorofGnosticism,Platonism,andtheLateAncientWorld: EssaysinHonourofJohnD.Turner(Brill,2013),andguesteditorofAries:Journal fortheStudyofWesternEsotericism15/1:EsotericismandAntiquity. NicolaDenzeyLewis theMargotL.GoldsmithChairof Women’sStudiesinReligionatClaremont GraduateUniversity,worksontheintellectualandsocialhistoryofChristian- izationinthecontextoftheRomanEmpire,withaspecialattentiontoGnos- ticism,livedreligion,andpracticesarounddeathandburial.Hermainareaof focusisthecityofRome.SheisauthorofCosmologyandFateinGnosticismand theGreco-RomanWorld (Brill,2013)and Introductionto“Gnosticism”:Ancient Voices,HiddenWorlds(OxfordUniversityPress,2013),amongotherbooksand articles. viii contributors IsmoDunderberg isDeanandProfessorofNewTestamentstudiesattheFacultyofTheology,Uni- versityofHelsinki.HehaspublishedextensivelyonJohannineliterature,early Christian gospels, Valentinian Christianity, and Nag Hammadi writings. His publicationsincludeGnosticMoralityRevisited (MohrSiebeck,2015), Beyond Gnosticism:Myth,Lifestyle,andSocietyintheSchoolof Valentinus (Columbia UniversityPress,2008),andTheBelovedDiscipleinConflict:RevisitingtheGos- pelsofJohnandThomas(OxfordUniversityPress,2006). OutiLehtipuu isAcademyResearchFellowandUniversityLecturerattheUniversityof Hel- sinki.HerscholarlyinterestsincludeearlyChristianrepresentationsoflifeafter deathandresurrection,aswellasquestionspertainingtogendercriticismand receptionhistory.Shehasrecentlypublished DebatesovertheResurrectionof theDead:ConstructingEarlyChristianIdentity(OxfordUniversityPress,2015) andco-editedPeopleunderPower:EarlyJewishandChristianResponsestothe RomanEmpire(AmsterdamUniversityPress,2015). HugoLundhaug isProfessorofBiblicalReceptionandEarlyChristianLiteratureattheUniver- sityofOslo,FacultyofTheology.HehaspublishedbooksandarticlesonCop- tic texts and manuscripts, Egyptian monasticism, cognitive theory, and new philology,includingImagesofRebirth:CognitivePoeticsandTransformational SoteriologyintheGospelofPhilipandtheExegesisontheSoul(Brill,2010)and, with Lance Jenott,TheMonasticOriginsof theNagHammadiCodices (Mohr Siebeck,2015). PetriLuomanen isProfessorofNewTestamentandEarlyChristianCultureandLiterature,Uni- versityof Helsinki.HehasworkedextensivelyonearlyChristiangospelsand Jewish-Christianityandisinterestedinsocio-cognitiveapproachestothestudy of earlyChristianity.Heistheauthorof RecoveringJewish-ChristianSectsand Gospels(Brill,2012)andco-editorofseveralvolumesonearlyChristianity,most recently Christianity and the Roots of Morality: Philosophical, Early Christian, andEmpiricalPerspectives(Brill,2017). IvanMiroshnikov isPost-doctoralResearcherattheUniversityof HelsinkiandResearchFellow at the Center of Egyptological Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. HeworksonCopticliteratureandmanuscripts,includingtheNagHammadi contributors ix writings.Heiscurrentlyrevisinghisdissertation,“TheGospelofThomasand Plato:AStudyoftheImpactofPlatonismonthe‘FifthGospel,’”forpublication intheBrillseriesNagHammadiandManichaeanStudies. SilkePetersen isAssociateProfessor(außerplanmäßigeProfessorin)ofNewTestamentatthe University of Hamburg. Her research interests include canonical and apoc- ryphalgospels,especiallytheGospelof John,Maryof Magdala,feministexe- gesisandhermeneutics,genderstudies,andtraditionsconcerningJesus.Her recent publications include MariaausMagdala:DieJüngerin,dieJesusliebte (EvangelischeVerlaganstalt,2011)and BrotLichtundWeinstock:Intertextuelle AnalysenjohanneischerIch-bin-Worte(Brill,2008). TuomasRasimus is Docent at the University of Helsinki and Associate Professor at Université Laval.HehaspublishedseveralarticlesandbooksrelatedtoGnosticism,the NewTestament,andGreekphilosophy.Heistheauthorof ParadiseReconsid- eredinGnosticMythmaking:RethinkingSethianisminLightof theOphiteEvi- dence(Brill,2009),editorof TheLegacyof John(Brill,2009),andco-editorof StocisminEarlyChristianity(BakerAcademic,2010)andGnosticism,Platonism, andtheLateAncientWorld(Brill,2013). ErjaSalmenkivi is University Researcher at the Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki. She is a papyrologist working on unpublished Greek documents from Egypt in the late Hellenistic period and Coptic manuscripts in Finnish collections. Salmenkiviistheauthorof CartonnagePapyriinContext:NewPtolemaicDoc- uments from Abū Ṣīr al-Malaq (Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2002) and co- editor of the Proceedings of the 24th Congress of Papyrology (Societas Scien- tiarumFennica,Helsinki2007). H.GregorySnyder isProfessorofReligionatDavidsonCollege,Davidson,nc.Hisscholarlyworkis focusedonChristiangroupsinsecond-centuryRome:heseekstounderstand theirdegreesof diversityanddifferencewithinthecontextof otherreligious and philosophical groups in the Roman urban environment. Snyder is the author of TeachersandTextsintheAncientWorld (Routledge, 2000), as well as articles in The Harvard Theological Review, The Journal of Early Christian Studies,andVigiliaeChristianae.
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