An Introductory Bibliography on
Gnosticism
With
Emphasis on Gnosticism and the New Testament
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.