An Introductory Bibliography on Gnosticism

With Emphasis on Gnosticism and the New Testament

Andrew T. Dolan

 

Filoramo, Giovanni.  A History of Gnosticism.  Trans. A. Alcock.  Oxford:  Blackwell, 1990.

Foerster, Werner.  Gnosis.  Vol. 1, Patristic Evidence.  Trans. R. McL. Wilson; Oxford:  Clarendon, 1972.

Hedrick, Charles W., and Robert Hodgson, Jr., eds.  Nag Hammadi, Gnosticism and Early Christianity.  Peabody, MA:  Hendrickson, 1986.

Layton, Bentley.  Gnostic Scriptures.  Garden City:  Doubleday, 1987.

——, ed.  The Rediscovery of Gnosticism.  Vol. 2, Sethian Gnosticism.  Leiden:  Brill, 1981.

Logan, A. H. B., and A. J. M. Wedderburn, eds.  The New Testament and Gnosis:  Essays in Honour of Robert McL. Wilson.  Edinburgh:  T & T Clark, 1983.

Longenecker, Richard N., and Merrill C. Tenney, eds.  New Dimensions in New Testament Study.  Grand Rapids:  Zondervan, 1974.  [various essays on NT and Gnosticism]

Pearson, Birger.  Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity.  Minneapolis:  Fortress, 1990.

Perkins, Pheme.  “Apocalypse of Adam:  Genre and Function of a Gnostic Apocalpse.” CBQ 39 (1977) 382-95.

——.  “Gnostic Christologies and the New Testament.”  CBQ 43 (1981) 590-606.

——.  The Gnostic Dialogue.  New York:  Paulist, 1980.

——.  Gnosticism and the New Testament.  Minneapolis:  Fortress, 1993.  [excellent, nigh-exhaustive bibliography]

——.  “Irenaeus and the Gnostics.” VC 30 (1976) 193-200.

——.  “Johannine Traditions in Ap. Jas. (CG I, 2).” JBL 101 (1982) 403-14.

——.  “Logos Christologies in the Nag Hammadi Codices.” VC 35 (1981) 379-96.

——.  “New Testament Christologies in Gnostic Transformation.” In The Future of Early Christianity:  Essays in Honor of Helmut Koester.  Ed. Birger Pearson, 433-41.  Minneapolis:  Fortress, 1984.

——.  “On the Origin of the World (CG II, 5):  A Gnostic Physics.”  VC 34 (1980) 36-46.

——.  “Pauline Anthropology in the Light of Nag Hammadi.” CBQ 48 (1986) 512-22.

Robinson, James M., ed.  The Nag Hammadi Library in English.  3d ed.  San Francisco:  Harper & Row, 1988.

Rudolf, Kurt.  Gnosis.  Trans. P. W. Coxon and K. H. Kuhn.  Ed. R. McL. Wilson; San Francisco:  Harper & Row, 1983.

Scholer, D. M.  “Bibliographia Gnostica:  Supplementum XXII.”  NovT 36.1 (1994) 58-96.

Siker, Jeffrey S.  “Gnostic Views on Jews and Christians in the Gospel of Philip.” NovT 31 (1989) 275-88.

Wilson, Robert McL.  Gnosis and the New Testament.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1968.

Wink, W.  Cracking the Gnostic Code.  The Powers in Gnosticism.  SBL Monograph Series 46.  Atlanta:  Scholars, 1993.

Yates, Roy.  “Colossian and Gnosis.”  JSNT 27  (1986) 49-68.