DIVINATIONS: REREADING LATE ANCIENT RELIGION Daniel Boyarin Virginia Burrus Devek Krueger A complete list of books in the series is available from the publisher Apocalypse of the Alien God PLATONISM AND THE EXILE OF SETHIAN GNOSTICISM Dylan M. Burns PENN ladelphiaAbbreviations Introduction Culture Wars Plotinus Against His Gnostic Friends Other Ways of Writing The Descent The Ascent The Crown Between Judaism, Christianity, and Neoplatonism Appendix: Reading Porphyry on the Gnostic Heretics and Their Apocalypses Notes Bibliography Index AcknowledgmentsABBREVIATIONS allowing those given in the SBL Handbook of Style and Oxford Classical Dictionary. Sigla in quotations of ancient texts follow the Leiden Conventions, with the exception that “|...” indicates x lacuna of unknown length, as well as longer stretches of multiple sls or lines where the text is too fragmentary to render in any read: Nets And Acts of Andrew \ets Just. Acts of Justin and Com Ac. Aris Aclius Aristides Acl. Theon Aclius Theon Progymin Progymnasmata Ale Alcinous Ep Epitome doctrin Alex. Lye Alexander of Lycopoli Allogenes Funk and Scopello (BCNH| Turner (CGL Book of Allogenes), Tebacos Codex Anonymous Prolegonna to P Apocalypse of Adam Apocalypse of Elijah Apocalypse of Enosh 1 Apocalypse of James Jas. 2 Apocalypse of James Apoe. Paul Apocalypse of Pal ‘toc. Peter (Coptic) Apocalypse of ‘tnoc. Peter (Eth,) (Ethiopic) Apocalypse of