VOLUME I: THE SCHOOL OF VALENTINUSPrefaceProgram of the ConferenceStaff and Sponsoring CommitteeAbbreviationsPart One. Plenary Sessions: Gnosticism and Western TraditionHenry Chadwick, "The Domestication of Gnosis"Gilles Quispel, "Gnosis and Psychology"Carsten Colpe, "The Challenge of Gnostic Thought for Philosophy, Alchemy, and Literature"Harold Bloom, "Lying Against Time: Gnosis, Poetry, Criticism"Part Two. Seminar on Valentinian GnosticismG.C. Stead, "In Search of Valentinus"Ugo Bianchi, "Religio-Historical Observations on Valentinianism"Gilles Quispel, "Valentinian Gnosis and the Apocryphon of John"R.McL.Wilson, "Valentinianism and the Gospel of Truth"Rowan Greer, "The Dog and the Mushrooms: Irenaeus''s View of the Valentinians Assessed"John Whittaker, "Self-Generating Principles in Second-Century Gnostic Systems"Michel Tardieu, "La gnose Valentinienne et les oracles Chaldaïques"Helmut Koester, "Gnostic Writings as Witnesses for the Development of the Sayings Tradition"Elaine Pagels, "Gnostic and Orthodox Views of Christ''s Passion: Paradigms for the Christian''s Response to Persecution?"Joel Fineman, "Gnosis and the Piety of Metaphor: The Gospel of Truth"Barbara Aland, "Gnosis und Christentum"Concluding DiscussionPart Three. Research Papers: Valentinianism, Platonism, IconographyJohn Dillon, "The Descent of the Soul in Middle Platonic and Gnostic Theory"Dominic J. O''Meara, "Gnosticism and the Making of the World in Plotinus"William R. Schoedel, "Gnostic Monism and the Gospel of Truth"Jean-Daniel Kaestli, "Valentinisme italien et valentinisme oriental: leurs divergences à propos de la nature du corps de Jésus"James F. McCue, "Conflicting Versions of Valentinianism? Irenaeus and the Excerpta ex Theodoto"Marguerite Harl, "Les ''mythes'' Valentiniens de la création et de l''eschatologie dans le langage d''Origène: le mot hypothesis"André Méhat, "''Vraie'' et ''fausse'' gnose d''après Clément d''Alexandrie"Paul Corby Finney, "Did Gnostics Make Pictures?"VOLUME II: SETHIAN GNOSTICISMPrefaceAbbreviationsPart Four. Seminar on Sethian GnosticismRobert Kraft, "Philo on Seth: Was Philo Aware of Traditions Which Exalted Seth and His Progeny?"Michael E. Stone, "Report on Seth Traditions in the Armenian Adam Books"Birger A. Pearson, "The Figure of Seth in Gnostic Literature"Discussion: Session 1George W.E. Nickelsburg, "Some Related Traditions in the Apocalypse of Adam, the Books of Adam and Eve, and 1 Enoch"Carsten Colpe, "Sethian and Zoroastrian Ages of the World"Discussion: Session 2Frederik Wisse, "Stalking Those Elusive Sethians"Kurt Rudolph, "Die ''Sethianische'' Gnosis - Eine häresiologische Fiktion?"Discussion: Session 3Hans-Martin Schenke, "The Phenomenon and Significance of Gnostic Sethianism"Alexander Böhlig, "Triade und Trinität in den Schriften von Nag Hammadi"Discussion: Session 4James M. Robinson, "Sethians and Johannine Thought: The Trimorphic Protennoiaand the Prologue of the Gospel of John"Discussion: Session 5Concluding DiscussionPart Five. Research PapersNils A. Dahl, "The Arrogant Archon and the Lewd Sophia: Jewish Traditions in Gnostic Revolt"Ithamar Gruenwald, "Aspects of the Jewish-Gnostic Controversy"Albert Henrichs, "Literary Criticism of the Cologne Mani Codex"Ludwig Koenen, "From Baptism to the Gnosis of Manichaeism"Klaus Koschorke, "Gnostic Instructions on the Organization of the Congregation: The Tractate Interpretation of Knowledgefrom CG XI"M. Marcovich, "The Naassene Psalm in Hippolytus (Haer.5.10.2)"Louis Painchaud, "Le cadre scolaire des traités de l''Ame et le Deuxième Traité du Grand Seth(CG VII, 2)"John H. Sieber, "The Barbelo Aeon as Sophia in Zostrianosand Related Tractates"Morton Smith, "The History of the Term Gnostikos"Gedaliahu G. Stroumsa, "Aher: A Gnostic"Michael A. Williams, "Stability as a Soteriological Theme in Gnosticism"Participants of the ConferenceIndexes to Volumes 1 and 2Ancient Texts and AuthorsModern Scholars