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Apophatic Strategies in Allogenes (NHC XI, 3) / Dylan Burns in Harvard Theological Review, 103/2 (2010)
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Titre : Apophatic Strategies in Allogenes (NHC XI, 3) Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Dylan Burns, Auteur Année de publication : 2010 Article en page(s) : pp. 161-179. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Despite decades of research, it remains surprisingly difficult to identify the origins of the works preserved in the hoard of Coptic manuscripts discovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945. Even as unearthed “Gnostic” gospels continue to make headlines, many academics repent intoning these old, fiery heretics, and some have even called for an all-out dispensation of the term “Gnosticism.” Yet a felicitous piece of external evidence seems to offer a more stable foundation for identifying the date and sectarian provenance of several of the most difficult works discovered at Nag Hammadi, the so-called “Platonizing” treatises of the “Sethian school” of Gnosticism. Porphyry, the top pupil of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (third century C.E.), remarks that,
there were in his [Plotinus's] time Christians of many kinds, and especially certain heretics who based their teachings on the ancient philosophy. They were followers of Adelphius and Aculinus, who possessed a lot of writings by Alexander the Libyan, Philocomus, Demostratus and Lydus, and also brandished apocalyptic works of Zoroaster, Zostrianus, Nicotheus, Allogenes, Messus and others of that kind.
in Harvard Theological Review > 103/2 (2010) . - pp. 161-179.[article] Apophatic Strategies in Allogenes (NHC XI, 3) [texte imprimé] / Dylan Burns, Auteur . - 2010 . - pp. 161-179.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Harvard Theological Review > 103/2 (2010) . - pp. 161-179.
Résumé : Despite decades of research, it remains surprisingly difficult to identify the origins of the works preserved in the hoard of Coptic manuscripts discovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945. Even as unearthed “Gnostic” gospels continue to make headlines, many academics repent intoning these old, fiery heretics, and some have even called for an all-out dispensation of the term “Gnosticism.” Yet a felicitous piece of external evidence seems to offer a more stable foundation for identifying the date and sectarian provenance of several of the most difficult works discovered at Nag Hammadi, the so-called “Platonizing” treatises of the “Sethian school” of Gnosticism. Porphyry, the top pupil of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (third century C.E.), remarks that,
there were in his [Plotinus's] time Christians of many kinds, and especially certain heretics who based their teachings on the ancient philosophy. They were followers of Adelphius and Aculinus, who possessed a lot of writings by Alexander the Libyan, Philocomus, Demostratus and Lydus, and also brandished apocalyptic works of Zoroaster, Zostrianus, Nicotheus, Allogenes, Messus and others of that kind.