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Princeton Museum , Greek, Gnostic gem. Black haematite, 4.1 x 2.3 cm. Museum purchase (y1942-58): https://64.media.tumblr.com/d9dd51cb9fa231065c1fe7fc63d0db61/tumblr_ojeaffZtGV1r0h08no1_1280.jpg I am curious about this janus-faced god with two- or three sets of wings. Isaiah 6:2: Above Him stood se...

Hippies are forever, bro. Even if you hate 'em, and they hate that term, too. Check that "aggregation" at Burning Man, tho! https://assets-global.website-files.com/5b8fd783bee52c8fb59b1fac/64676286a55bc87dcf3d1d41_Shavuot.jpeg https://i0.wp.com/sententiaeantiquae.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

One of the odder opinions, here. Oh well. How many of you believe that?! You can lead a horse to water ... (Old News.)
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As a side-note, "Williams & Wilkins" (Waverly Press) was the publisher of many serials and books for "The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research." I cannot determine if Lewy's Pseudo-Philonic De Jona (published by Waverly Press in Baltimore, MD in 1936) was another little...

Two years after the mystery article of the OP (1875), another along similar lines appeared. Although the topic is not identical, again I assert that a forensic analysis could definitively resolve whether this Author is one and the same. See Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft , V...

This is a surprising find: E. Meyer not only supported Edelstein's friend, he might have played some role as a visa-sponsor. That sort of relationship seems very close, not merely an incidental acquaintance. Albert I. Baumgarten, "Elias Bickerman and Hans (Yohanan) Lewy : The Story of a Friends...

Origen (c.248 AD) also uses the term many, many times in response to Celsus (c.175 AD); the Logos Alēthēs may have been composed in Alexandria, and Celsus probably knew of (Jewish) Logos-theology. Plotinus came much, much later; despite your fervid imaginings, Plotinus (c.270 AD) is really -- ahem -...

Some gnostic gospels (for example Trimorphic Protennoia) make use of fully developed Neoplatonism and thus need to be dated after Plotinus in the 3rd century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library Well, no. 'Someone said' does not make it so. Plotinus raised in a milieu of Egyptian Gnos...

A single 4th C AD inscription to semi-fictional then-largely mythic character (Apollonius) of the 1st C isn't very interesting to me. The date of the inscription is not known. I accept the qualification of Jones [1980] : a date within the 3rd-4th C range is correct. It's probably an inscription c.3...

From another thread: Possible Historical Allusions in the Nag Hammadi Library https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10013 (6) "The All" as a technical term in the NHL appears to follow Plotinus' use in the Enneads The term " the All " is used more than 200 time...