Dylan M Burns
Biographic Data
| ID | 1483459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dylan M Burns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dylan M |
| FAMILY NAME | Burns |
| SIGNATURE | BURNS D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0391-9077 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Greek Philosophy in Coptic
215
The Nag Hammadi Codices as Monastic Books
Since their discovery in 1945, the significance of the texts contained in the thirteen papyrus manuscripts now known as the Nag Hammadi Codices has been fiercely debated. In the history of scholarship, the texts have primarily been analyzed in light of the contexts of their hypothetical Greek originals, which in a majority of cases have been thought to have been authored in the second and third centuries CE in a variety of contexts. The articles …
« Les Deux Livres de Iéou » (MS Bruce 96,1–3). Les livres du grand discours mystérique, Le livre des connaissances du Dieu invisible, Fragment sur le passage de l’âme, edited and translated by Éric Cr…
Université Laval -Éditions Peeters 2019, € 138 (pb)
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices
A New Volume of Perfect Words
The main impetus for this book is the absence of an up-to-date English translation of significant materials, mostly pertaining to 'philosophical Hermetica'-philosophically-inclined literature of Roman and late antiquity that features the Hellenistic Egyptian culture-hero Hermes Trismegistus ("thricegreatest")-that are not found in Brian Copenhaver's celebrated 1992 Cambridge translation of the Corpus Hermeticum and Latin Asclepius.1 The mate-1
Christianizing Egypt. Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity, written by David Frankfurter
New Lights on Oracles, Platonists, and Esotericism in Late Antiquity
Codex apocryphus gnosticus Novi Testamenti, written by Peter Nagel
Christen und Sethianer
Nag Hammadi Codices
Upon their discovery in 1945, the Nag Hammadi codices immediately became the largest and most important body of sources for the study of ancient Gnosticism. Comprising twelve books written in Coptic, they contain many Gnostic, apocryphal, and even Neoplatonic early Christian texts, most of which were hitherto unknown or lost. Their language is also instrumental for the study of Coptic linguistics, especially the dialects. The origin and even the …
Gnosis Undomesticated
Scholarship has of late sought to “domesticate” Gnostic literature, situating the Nag Hammadi texts in late ancient Egyptian asceticism. Evidence about “libertine” Gnosticism is now regarded by many to be sheer fiction, entirely without parallel in the Nag Hammadi corpus. Yet not all Gnostic texts are so easy to tame; the Paraphrase of Shem, for instance, is a work replete with seemingly shocking material—ranging from the seduction of an archonti…
Sethian Crowns, Sethian Martyrs? Jewish Apocalypses and Christian Martyrs in a Gnostic Literary Tradition
The predominant image of the crown is among the most baffling features of several, difficult Gnostic apocalypses, recensions of which we know to have been controversial in the school of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (ca. 263 c.e. ). In these “Sethian” apocalypses, recovered from Nag Hammadi (Upper Egypt) in 1945, crowns adorn heavenly beings, and are donned by seers during their celestial voyages. It is clear they are significant in this l…
Care or Prayer? Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho 1.4 Revisited
Justin Martyr reports (and rejects) the curious argument that the practice of prayer is mutually exclusive with God's providential care for individual beings. Pépin has demonstrated that the same argument, probably of Middle-Platonic provenance, is extant in Maximus of Tyre. A closer look shows its ambiguous stance towards Stoicism, with which it might have some affinity (in Maximus' use) but could also target (in the use known to Justin); the pr…
Apophatic Strategies in Allogenes (NHC XI, 3)
Despite decades of research, it remains surprisingly difficult to identify the origins of the works preserved in the hoard of Coptic manuscripts discovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945. Even as unearthed “Gnostic” gospels continue to make headlines, many academics repent intoning these old, fiery heretics, and some have even called for an all-out dispensation of the term “Gnosticism.” 2 Yet a felicitous piece of external evidence seems to offer a more …
The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster, Hekate's Couch,and Platonic Orientalism in Psellos and Plethon Die Chaldäischen Orakel des Zoroaster, die Couch der Hekate und platonischer Orientalismus in Psellos …
Die vorliegende Untersuchung geht der Frage nach, auf welche Weise Michael Psellos und Georgios Gemistos Plēthon die Chaldäischen Orakel als eine Quelle uralter orientalischer Weisheit interpretierten. Psellos geht als ein Häresiologe an die Orakel heran, wenn auch mit ambivalenten Aussagen hinsichtlich der Rolle von Magie sowohl in der Lehre der Orakel als in seiner eigenen Philosophie. Der Artikel untersucht, inwieweit in der mittelalterlichen …
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The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster, Hekate's Couch,and Platonic Orientalism in Psellos and Plethon Die Chaldäischen Orakel des Zoroaster, die Couch der Hekate und platonischer Orientalismus in Psellos …
Die vorliegende Untersuchung geht der Frage nach, auf welche Weise Michael Psellos und Georgios Gemistos Plēthon die Chaldäischen Orakel als eine Quelle uralter orientalischer Weisheit interpretierten. Psellos geht als ein Häresiologe an die Orakel heran, wenn auch mit ambivalenten Aussagen hinsichtlich der Rolle von Magie sowohl in der Lehre der Orakel als in seiner eigenen Philosophie. Der Artikel untersucht, inwieweit in der mittelalterlichen …
Apophatic Strategies in Allogenes (NHC XI, 3)
Despite decades of research, it remains surprisingly difficult to identify the origins of the works preserved in the hoard of Coptic manuscripts discovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945. Even as unearthed “Gnostic” gospels continue to make headlines, many academics repent intoning these old, fiery heretics, and some have even called for an all-out dispensation of the term “Gnosticism.” 2 Yet a felicitous piece of external evidence seems to offer a more …
Sethian Crowns, Sethian Martyrs? Jewish Apocalypses and Christian Martyrs in a Gnostic Literary Tradition
The predominant image of the crown is among the most baffling features of several, difficult Gnostic apocalypses, recensions of which we know to have been controversial in the school of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (ca. 263 c.e. ). In these “Sethian” apocalypses, recovered from Nag Hammadi (Upper Egypt) in 1945, crowns adorn heavenly beings, and are donned by seers during their celestial voyages. It is clear they are significant in this l…
Care or Prayer? Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho 1.4 Revisited
Justin Martyr reports (and rejects) the curious argument that the practice of prayer is mutually exclusive with God's providential care for individual beings. Pépin has demonstrated that the same argument, probably of Middle-Platonic provenance, is extant in Maximus of Tyre. A closer look shows its ambiguous stance towards Stoicism, with which it might have some affinity (in Maximus' use) but could also target (in the use known to Justin); the pr…
Gnosis Undomesticated
Scholarship has of late sought to “domesticate” Gnostic literature, situating the Nag Hammadi texts in late ancient Egyptian asceticism. Evidence about “libertine” Gnosticism is now regarded by many to be sheer fiction, entirely without parallel in the Nag Hammadi corpus. Yet not all Gnostic texts are so easy to tame; the Paraphrase of Shem, for instance, is a work replete with seemingly shocking material—ranging from the seduction of an archonti…
Nag Hammadi Codices
Upon their discovery in 1945, the Nag Hammadi codices immediately became the largest and most important body of sources for the study of ancient Gnosticism. Comprising twelve books written in Coptic, they contain many Gnostic, apocryphal, and even Neoplatonic early Christian texts, most of which were hitherto unknown or lost. Their language is also instrumental for the study of Coptic linguistics, especially the dialects. The origin and even the …
New Lights on Oracles, Platonists, and Esotericism in Late Antiquity
Codex apocryphus gnosticus Novi Testamenti, written by Peter Nagel
Christen und Sethianer
Christianizing Egypt. Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity, written by David Frankfurter
A New Volume of Perfect Words
The main impetus for this book is the absence of an up-to-date English translation of significant materials, mostly pertaining to 'philosophical Hermetica'-philosophically-inclined literature of Roman and late antiquity that features the Hellenistic Egyptian culture-hero Hermes Trismegistus ("thricegreatest")-that are not found in Brian Copenhaver's celebrated 1992 Cambridge translation of the Corpus Hermeticum and Latin Asclepius.1 The mate-1
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices
The Nag Hammadi Codices as Monastic Books
Since their discovery in 1945, the significance of the texts contained in the thirteen papyrus manuscripts now known as the Nag Hammadi Codices has been fiercely debated. In the history of scholarship, the texts have primarily been analyzed in light of the contexts of their hypothetical Greek originals, which in a majority of cases have been thought to have been authored in the second and third centuries CE in a variety of contexts. The articles …
« Les Deux Livres de Iéou » (MS Bruce 96,1–3). Les livres du grand discours mystérique, Le livre des connaissances du Dieu invisible, Fragment sur le passage de l’âme, edited and translated by Éric Cr…
Université Laval -Éditions Peeters 2019, € 138 (pb)
Greek Philosophy in Coptic
215
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