Gerard P Luttikhuizen

Biographic Data

ID1483348
NAMEGerard P Luttikhuizen
GIVEN NAMESGerard P
FAMILY NAMELuttikhuizen
SIGNATURELUTTIKHUIZEN G P
AFFILIATIONSInstitute of Religious Studies
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR14
WORKS AS EDITOR4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX1

  • Tuomas Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking

    Gerard P Luttikhuizen, Gerard LuttikhuizenARTICLEVigiliae Christianae2012

  • Monism And Dualism In Jewish-Mystical And Gnostic Ascent Texts

    Open AccessGerard P LuttikhuizenCHAPTERFlores Florentino2007

    A variety of texts from the ancient world depict human beings escaping the constraints of their physical existence even before death and ascending to a supernal realm. This chapter discusses and compares two bodies of ancient esoteric literature in which the ascent theme is prominently present a group of late antique or medieval Jewish mystical writings commonly referred to as Hekhalot texts and some of the early Christian gnostic texts which wer…

  • The Revelation of the Unknowable God in Coptic Gnostic Texts

    Gerard P Luttikhuizen, Gerardus LuttikhuizenARTICLERevelation of the Name YHWH to…2006

  • Gnostic Revisions of Genesis Stories and Early Jesus Traditions

    Gerard P LuttikhuizenBOOKGnostic Revisions of Genesis…2006Cited by: 1

    This book argues that the intellectuals behind early Gnostic revisions of Genesis stories were second-century Christians with an ideological background in Greek-Hellenistic philosophy, who adopted and reinterpreted biblical narrative materials with a view to exposing the inferiority of the creator-God of Genesis and the ignorance of those Christians who continued to worship this God. It also discusses controversies between Gnostic and early ortho…

  • Elchasaites and Their Book

    Gerard P LuttikhuizenCHAPTERA Companion to Second-Century…2005

  • The Demonic Demiurge in Gnostic Mythology

    Gerard P LuttikhuizenARTICLEThe Fall of the Angels2004

  • Eve’s Children

    Gerard P LuttikhuizenBOOKEve's Children2003

    This volume is devoted to the biblical stories about Eve’s children, Cain, Abel, and Seth, and to the rewritings and explanations of these stories in a variety of early Jewish and Christian sources (Old Testament Apocrypha, Philo of Alexandria, Targumim, the New Testament, Rabbinic and Kabbalistic texts, Christian-Gnostic and Patristic Literature). Attention is given also to post-biblical stories speaking about Eve’s daughters and to traditions i…

  • Jerusalem, Alexandria, Rome

    A Hilhorst, Florentino Garcia Martinez et al.EDITORBOOKJerusalem, Alexandria, Rome2003

  • The Critical Rewriting of Genesis in The Gnostic Apocryphon of John

    Gerard P LuttikhuizenCHAPTERJerusalem, Alexandria, Rome2003

  • Gnostic Ideas about Eve’s Children and the Salvation of Humanity

    Gerard P LuttikhuizenARTICLE2003

  • Traces of Aristotelian Thought in the Apocryphon of John

    Gerard P LuttikhuizenCHAPTERFor the Children, Perfect…2002

  • The Creation of Man and Woman

    Gerard P LuttikhuizenEDITORBOOKCreation of Man and Woman2000

    This volume deals with the three stories about the creation of man and woman in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 1:26-27; 2:7; and 2:18-25) and with diverse interpretations of these narratives in Judaism and Christianity, particularly in ancient Jewish and Christian texts: Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, Philo, the apostle Paul, Patristic, Rabbinic, and Gnostic texts. Other chapters are devoted to John Milton's recreation of Eve and Adam, to…

  • Paradise Interpreted

    Gerard P LuttikhuizenEDITORBOOKParadise Interpreted1999

    This study on the representations of Paradise in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 2-3 and Ezekiel 28) also deals with the reception of the biblical accounts in early Jewish writings (Enochic texts, the Book of Jubilees, Qumran texts) in Rabbinics and Kabbalah, early mainstream Christianity and in early Christian apocryphal and Gnostic literature. Two further chapters are devoted to views of Paradise in the Christian Middle Ages. The volume concludes wit…

  • Interpretations of the Flood

    Gerard P Luttikhuizen, Florentino Garcia MartinezEDITORBOOKInterpretations of the Flood1999

    This volume opens with an analysis of the biblical Flood story within its ancient Oriental context and with two essays devoted to the study of the Flood in Greek literature. Several essays are devoted to the interpretation of the biblical story in diverse ancient Jewish and Christian texts (Old Testament apocrypha, Gnostic mythology, patristic and rabbinic literature). The volume ends with a study about the interpretation of the Flood in the peri…

  • Interpretations of the Flood

    Gerard P Luttikhuizen, Florentino Garcia MartinezBOOKInterpretations of the flood1998

    This volume brings together interpretations of the story of Noach and the Flood in diverse ancient Jewish and Christian traditions (including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Gnostic mythology, rabbinical tradition). It opens with an analysis of the biblical story within its ancient oriental context and ends with essays by a historian of science and a psycho-analyst

  • The Thought Pattern of Gnostic Mythologizers and Their Use of Biblical Traditions

    Gerard P LuttikhuizenCHAPTERThe Nag Hammadi Library after…1997

  • The Revelation of Elchasai. Investigations into the Evidence for a Mesopotamian Jewish Apocalypse of the Second Century and Its Reception by Judeo-Christian Propagandists

    J Van Amersfoort, Gerard P LuttikhuizenARTICLEVigiliae Christianae1987

  • The Revelation of Elchasai

    Gerard P LuttikhuizenBOOKThe Revelation of Elchasai1985

    The Revelation of Elchasai. Investigations into the Evidence for a Mesopotamian Jewish Apocalypse of the Second Century and its Reception by Judeo-Christian Propagandists