Valentinus
- Died
- 160 · Cyprus.
- Occupation
- philosopher · writer
- Fields
- philosophy
- Languages
- Ancient Greek
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- 1.Cross. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Oxford University Press. 1687–1688. 2005. 978-0-19-280290-3.
- 2.Dunn, James D. G. Paul and Gnosis. Brill Publishers. 9. 105–118. 2016. 978-90-04-31668-3.
- 3.The Tripartite Tractate, §14
- 4.Irenaeus, Adversus Haeresies i. 6
- 5.Brakke, David. The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity. Harvard University Press. 100. 2011-01-01. 978-0-674-05889-7.
- 6.Brill. The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Book I (Sections 1–46). 166. 2009. 9789004170179.
- 7.langx grc-x-koine ἔφασαν γὰρ αὐτόν τινες γεγενῆσθαι Φρεβωνίτην, τῆς Αἰγύπτου Παραλιώτην, ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ δὲ πεπαιδεῦσθαι τὴν τῶν Ἑλλήνων παιδείαν.
- 8.Cruttwell, Charles Thomas. A Literary History of Early Christianity: Including the Fathers and the Chief Heretical Writers of the Ante-Nicene Period. Charles Scribner's Sons. 210. 1893.
- 9.Mullen, Roderic L. The Expansion of Christianity: A Gazetteer of its First Three Centuries. Brill. 285. 2003. 9004131353.
- 10.Markschies, Christoph. Valentinus Gnosticus?. J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck). 315–316. 1992. 3161459938.
- 11.Hogarth, D. G. Three North Delta Nomes. The Journal of Hellenic Studies. Macmillan and Company. 24. 3–5. 1904. 10.2307/623979.
- 12.Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis, book 7, chapter 17. "Likewise they allege that Valentinus was a hearer of Theudas. And he was the pupil of Paul."
- 13.The article esoteric Christianity focuses on Early Modern and modern esoteric Christian revivals.
- 14.Bernard Green, Christianity in Ancient Rome: The First Three Centuries
- 15.Pagels, Elaine H. The Gnostic Gospels. Vintage Books. 39. 1989. 978-0-679-72453-7.
- 16.Andrew S. Jacobs, Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity
- 17.'Valentinian gnosticism ... differs essentially from dualism' (Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, 1978); 'a standard element in the interpretation of Valentinianism and similar forms of Gnosticism is the recognition that they are fundamentally monistic' (William Schoedel, 'Gnostic Monism and the Gospel of Truth' in The Rediscovery of Gnosticism, Vol.1: The School of Valentinus, edited by Bentley Layton, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1980).
- 18.Tertullian. Against All Heresies: Valentinus, Ptolemy and Secundus, Heracleon (Book I, Chapter 4). NewAdvent.org.
- 19.Clement, Stromateis 3.59.3 translated B. Layton p. 239.
- 20.Dillon, John M. The Middle Platonists, 80 B.C. to A.D. 220. Cornell University Press. 384-386. 1996. 978-0-8014-8316-5.
- 21.A.H.B. Logan, "Marcellus of Ancyra (Pseudo-Anthimus), 'On the Holy Church': Text, Translation and Commentary. Verses 8-9." Journal of Theological Studies, New Series, 51.1, April 2000:95.
- 22.Marcellus, in Logan 2000:95
- 23.Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 1.1.1-3
- 24.Bousset, Wilhelm. 27. 852–857; see page 854.
- 25.Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 1.7.5
- 26.Eusebius, Against Marcellus, Book I
- 27.M.T. Riley.
- 28.Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses 3.11.9.
- 29.See The Gospel of Truth 23:1, Hal Taussig, ed., A New New Testament: A Bible for the Twenty-first Century (Boston-New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013).
- 30.See Gospel of Truth 10:11, Hal Taussig, ed., A New New Testament: A Bible for the Twenty-first Century (Boston-New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
- 31.Compare GofT 1:1 with John 1; GofT 8:10 with John 3:7-8; GofT 10:10 with John 17:21-23; GofT 10:11 with John 17:1-3; GofT 14:5 with John 15:1-6; GofT 16:7 with John 1; GofT 27:6 with John 14:10; GofT 27:8 with John 15:1-6; Hal Taussig, edl, A New New Testament (Boston-New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
- 32.Compare GofT 2:2 with Ode 16:18; GofT 2:8 with Ode 22:1; GofT 5:1 with Ode 3:6-8; GofT 5:2 with Ode 3:2; GofT 6:1 with Ode 23; GofT 6:11 with Ode 15:8; GofT 10:8 with Ode 19:1-5; GofT 10:12 with Ode 14:10; GofT 21:8 with Ode11; GofT 21:9 with Ode 9:3; GofT 22:4-7 with Ode 24:8; GofT 23:8&9 with Ode 26; GofT 23:10 with Ode 23:1-3; GofT 27:2 with Ode 19:1-2; GofT 27:4 with Ode 3:5; Hal Taussig, ed. A New New Testament (Boston-New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
- 33.Hal Taussig, ed., A New New Testament: A Bible for the Twenty-first Century (Boston-New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
Bibliography printed in the source article · 9
- Valentinus and Valentinians.
- The ancient primary sources for Valentinus are: Irenaeus, Against Heresies I.1 seq. and III.4; Hippolytus of Rome, Philosophumena, VI, 20–37; Tertullian, Adv. Valentin.; Epiphanius, Panarion, 31 (including the Letter to Flora); Theodoret, Haer. Fab., I, 7.
- New Seeds Books. The Gnostic Bible: Revised and Expanded Edition. 239–355. 2003. 9781590301999.
- Layton, Bentley. The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions. Doubleday. 215–64. 1987. 0385174470.
- Legge, Francis. Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity, from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D. University Books. 1964.
- Markschies, Christoph. Valentinus Gnosticus?: Untersuchungen zur valentinianischen Gnosis mit einem Kommentar zu den Fragmenten Valentins. J.C.B. Mohr. 1992. 3161459938.
- Harper & Row. The Nag Hammadi Library in English. 1977. 0060669292.
- Thomassen, Einar. The Spiritual Seed: The Church of the "Valentinians". Brill. 2006. 9004148027.
- Thomassen, Einar. The Valentinian School of Gnostic Thought. The Nag Hammadi Scriptures. HarperOne. 790–94. 2007. 9780061626005.
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