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Valentinianism: New Studies offers fresh contributions by leading experts on the history of the Valentinian "Gnostic" church, on contested aspects of Valentinian doctrine, and on the use and interpretation of the New Testament by the Valentinians.
About the author
Christoph Markschies, Dr. theol. habil. (Tübingen 1991, 1994), Dr. theol. h.c. mult. (Sibiu/Hermannstadt, Oslo, Lateran University Rome) is Professor for Ancient Christianity in Berlin, vice-president of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and member of numerous scholarly academies in Germany and abroad. His latest publications include Christian Theology and Its Institutions in the Early Roman Empire (Waco, Tex., 2015) und
Gottes Körper: Jüdische, christliche und pagane Gottesvorstellungen in der Antike (Munich, 2016).
Einar Thomassen, PhD (1982), University of St Andrews, is Professor of Religion at the University of Bergen. He has published monographs, editions, translations and many articles on Valentinianism and the history of religions generally, including
The Spiritual Seed (Brill, 2006).
