Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism

Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988. First edition thus. Hardcover. As new. Octavo. xxi, (1), 455, (1)pp. Index & bibliography. Faux brown pigskin, lettered in gilt. An ex-library copy but with minimal markings (small rubber stamp on title page & bottom of text block, and a library pocket on rear pastedown).

Papers from a conference held Nov. 19-25, 1985, in Claremont, Calif. and sponsored by the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Dept. of Religious Studies at Occidental College, and the Society of Biblical Literature. Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-446) and index.

Contents: Essays and Responses --; Variety in Gnostic Perspectives on Gender /; Michael A. Williams --; Gender and Generation: Observations on Coptic Terminology, with Particular Attention to Valentinian Texts /; Deirdre J. Good --; A Response to Gender and Generation /; John H. Sieber --; Prouneikos. A Colorful Expression to Designate Wisdom in Gnostic Texts /; Anne Pasquier --; A Response to Prouneikos /; Marvin W. Meyer --; Jewish and Greek Heroines in the Nag Hammadi Library /; Madeleine Scopello --; A Response to Jewish and Greek Heroines /; Douglas M. Parrott --; Sophia as Goddess in the Nag Hammadi Codices /; Pheme Perkins --; Very Goddess and Very Man: Jesus' Better Self /; James M. Robinson --; A Response to Very Goddess and Very Man /; Charles W. Hedrick --; Female Figures in the Gnostic Sondergut in Hippolytus's Refutatio /; Luise Abramowski --; A Response to Female Figures /; Ron Cameron --; Sophia and Christ in the Apocryphon of John /; Karen L. King --; A Response to Sophia and Christ /; John D. Turner --; Pursuing the Spiritual Eve: Imagery and Hermeneutics in the Hypostasis of the Archons and the Gospel of Philip /; Elaine Pagels --; A Response to Pursuing the Spiritual Eve /; Mary Rose D'Angelo --; "The Holy Spirit Is a Double Name": Holy Spirit, Mary, and Sophia in the Gospel of Philip /; Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley --; A Response to "The Holy Spirit Is a Double Name" /; Kurt Rudolph --; Virginity and Subversion: Norea Against the Powers in the Hypostasis of the Archons /; Anne McGuire --; A Response to Virginity and Subversion /; Ross S. Kraemer.

A volume in the publisher's series, "Studies in Antiquity and Christianity."