Gnostic Morality Revisited

Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 1: Moral Progress in Early Christian Stories of the Soul . . . . . . . 19
Chapter 2: Judas’ Anger and the Perfect Human . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Chapter 3: Early Christian Critics of Martyrdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Chapter 4: Gnostic Interpretations of Genesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Chapter 5: Johannine Traditions and Apocryphal Gospels . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Chapter 6: Stoic Traditions in the School of Valentinus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Chapter 7: Valentinian Theories on Classes of Humankind . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Chapter 8: Paul and Valentinian Morality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Chapter 9: New Testament Theology and the Challenge of Practice . . . . 169
Chapter 10: How Far Can You Go? Jesus, John, the Synoptics
and Other Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Index of Ancient Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Index of Modern Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241