Dr. D.M. (Dylan) Burns
Assistant Professor of the History of Western Esotericism in Late Antiquity
Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Geschiedenis van de Hermetische filosofie en verwante stromingen
Visiting address
- Kloveniersburgwal 48
- Room number: D1.08A
Postal address
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Postbus 1622
1000 BP Amsterdam
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Publications
2024
- Burns, D. M., & Iricinschi, E. (2024). Manichaica-Judaica-Gnostica (1): Polemics, Geographies, and Ethics (Prologue). In Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies (Vol. 9, pp. 143-158). https://doi.org/10.1163/2451859X-00902001
- Burns, D. M., & Iricinschi, E. (Ed.) (2024). Manichaica-Judaica-Gnostica 1. Brill.
2023
Burns, D. (2023). [Review of: D.G. Robertson (2022) Gnosticism and the History of Religions]. Reading Religion. https://readingreligion.org/9781350137691/gnosticism-and-the-history-of-religions/ [details]- Burns, D. M. (2023). (No) Providence Among the Manichaeans? Divine Care in the Kephalaia of the Teacher. In J. BeDuhn, P. Dilley, & I. Gardner (Eds.), The Medinet Madi Library of Manichaean Codices at 90: Papers from the Symposium at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, 18–19 October 2019 (pp. 96–122). (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies; Vol. 104). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004542938_010 [details]
- Burns, D. M. (2023). More Greek Philosophers Among the Copts: The Notes of Some Philosophers (MONB.BE) and the ‘Wisdom that is Outside’ in Pseudo-Evodius of Rome’s Homily on the Passion and Resurrection. In I. Miroshnikov (Ed.), Parabiblica Coptica (pp. 31–52). (Parabiblica; No. 3). Mohr Siebeck. https://doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-162224-3 [details]
- Burns, D. M. (2023). The Import of the Gnostic Apocalypses from Nag Hammadi for the Study of Early Jewish Mysticism. In L. DiTommaso , & M. Goff (Eds.), Reimagining Apocalypticism: Apocalyptic Literature in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Writings (pp. 503–536). (Early Judaism and Its Literature; No. 57). SBL Press. [details]
- Burns, D. M. (2023). The Nag Hammadi Codices and Graeco-Egyptian Magical and Occult Literature. In H. Lundhaug, & C. H. Bull (Eds.), The Nag Hammadi Codices as Monastic Books (pp. 279–316). (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum; Vol. 134). Mohr Siebeck. https://viewer.content-select.com/pdf/viewer?id=5311&id_type=isbn&identifiers=9783161622335&signature=b8281b9fc875a726ddf86bd2016246097bfb456a&frontend=1&language=eng&session=mTSrqDVKyN3kODAold1pRILriBV9kdjxADfUDL1C43VwA7aZMd8lZc6kd6fRR2xy [details]
- Burns, D. M. (2023). Translating Esotericism: Coptic. Correspondences: Journal for the Study of Esotericism, 11(1), 51–57. [details]
- Burns, D. M. (2023). [Review of: E. Crégheur (2019) 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]. Vigiliae Christianae, 77(5), 565–575. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-12347527 [details]
2022
- Burns, D. (2022). Non γνωστικός sed ⲡⲣⲉϥⲥⲟⲟⲩⲛⲉ: Positive and Self-Designations Involving Knowledge and Knowers in the Nag Hammadi Codices. In F. Feder, A. Lohwasser, & G. Schenke (Eds.), Sortieren – Edieren – Kreieren: zwischen Handschriftenfunden und Universitätsalltag : Stephen L. Emmel zum 70. Geburtstag gewidmet (pp. 161–199). (Aegyptiaca Monasteriensia; Vol. 8). Shaker Verlag. https://doi.org/10.2370/9783844086171 [details]
- Burns, D. M. (2022). Hermes Trismegistus. In Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online Brill.
- Burns, D. M. (2022). Ogdoad. In Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online Brill.
- Burns, D. M. (2022). Pleroma. In Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online Brill.
- Burns, D. M. (2022). The Interpretation of Knowledge. In Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online Brill.
- Burns, D. M. (2022). The Paraphrase of Shem. In Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online Brill.
- Burns, D. M. (2022). The Second Treatise of the Great Seth. In Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online Brill.
- Burns, D. M. (2022). The Three Steles of Seth. In Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online Brill.
- Burns, D. M. (2022). There Is No Soul in a Sect, Only Spirit and Flesh: Soteriological Determinism in the Tripartite Tractate (NHC I,5) and the “Vision of Hagu” (4QInstruction). In D. M. Burns, & M. Goff (Eds.), The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices: Selected Papers from the Conference “The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices” in Berlin, 20–22 July 2018 (pp. 359–387). (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies; Vol. 103). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004517561_015 [details]
- Burns, D. M. (2022). [Review of: R. Brouwer, E. Vimercati (2020) Fate, Providence, and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age]. Theologische Literaturzeitung, 147(5), 482–484. https://www.thlz.com/artikel/22509 [details]
- Burns, D. M., & Goff, M. (2022). The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi Codices, and the Joys of Weak Comparison. In D. M. Burns, & M. Goff (Eds.), The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices: Selected Papers from the Conference “The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices” in Berlin, 20–22 July 2018 (pp. 3–30). (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies; Vol. 103). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004517561_002 [details]
- Burns, D. M., & Goff, M. (Eds.) (2022). The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices: Selected Papers from the Conference “The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices” in Berlin, 20–22 July 2018. (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies; Vol. 103). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004517561 [details]
2021
- Burns, D. M. (2021). A New Volume of Perfect Words: [Review of: M.D. Litwa (2018) Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies in an English Translation with Notes and Introductions]. Aries, 20(2), 271-278. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700593-02102003 [details]
- Burns, D. M. (2021). David Frankfurter, Christianizing Egypt (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017). Vigiliae Christianae, 75(1), 104-112.
- Burns, D. M. (2021). From the ‘Gnostic Dialogues’ to the ‘Apostolic Memoirs’: Literary and Historical Settings of the Nag Hammadi Apocalypses . In Dreams, Visions, Imaginations: Jewish, Christian and Gnostic Views of the World to Come (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft; Vol. 247). De Gruyter.
- Burns, D. M. (2021). Self-Begotten, Not Equal: The Pre-Existence of Christ and the Elect in the Apocryphon of John (NHC, II,1 and par.). In J. Frey, F. Kunath, & J. Schröter (Eds.), Perspektiven zur Präexistenz im Frühjudentum und im frühen Christentum (pp. 263–280). (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament; Vol. 457). Mohr Siebeck.
- Burns, D. M. (2021). The Hermetic Asclepius’s Middle Platonist Teaching on Fate. In R. M. Calhoun, J. A. Kelhoffer, & C. K. Rothschild (Eds.), Celebrating Arthur Darby Nock : Choice, Change, and Conversion (pp. 299-318). (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament; Vol. 472). Mohr Siebeck. https://doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-161001-1 [details]
- Burns, D. M. (2021). The Philosophical Contexts of the Providence Doxographies in the Wisdom of Jesus Christ, Eugnostos, and the Tripartite Tractate. In J. Verheyden, J. Schröter, & T. Nicklas (Eds.), Texts in Context: Essays on Dating and Contextualising Christian Writings of the Second and Early Third Century (pp. 251-271). (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium; Vol. 319). Peeters. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1q26nrm.13
- Burns, D. M. (2021). [Review of: J. Cahana-Blum (2019) Wrestling with Archons: Gnosticism as a Critical Theory of Culture]. The Journal of Religion, 101(4), 536-538. https://doi.org/10.1086/715800 [details]
2020
- Burns, D. M. (2020). Did God Care? Providence, Dualism, and Will in Later Greek and Early Christian Philosophy. (Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition; Vol. 25). Brill.
- Burns, D. M. (2020). Lo gnosticismo setiano è una religione abramitica? Abramo, Sodoma e il parabiblico nella letteratura gnostica antica. Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religion, 86, 67–81.
- Burns, D. M. (2020). Mani’s Book of Mysteries: A Treatise De anima. In J. van Oort (Ed.), Manichaeism and Early Christianity: Selected Papers from the 2019 Pretoria Congress and Consultation (pp. 70–97). (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies; Vol. 99). Brill.
- Burns, D. M. (2020). Pseudo-Evodius of Rome, On the Passion and Resurrection: A New Translation with Introduction and Notes. In T. Burke (Ed.), New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures. Vol. II (pp. 41-86). Eerdmans Publishing Company.
- Burns, D. M. (2020). Receptions of Revelations: A Future for the Study of Gnosis, Esotericism, and Antiquity. In New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism (Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion). Brill.
- Burns, D. M. (2020). The Gnostic Apocalypses. In C. McAllister (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature (pp. 59-78). Cambridge University Press.
2019
- Burns, D. M., & Renger, A-B. (Ed.) (2019). New Antiquities: Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond . Equinox Publ.
2016
- Burns, D. M. (2016). Providence, Creation, and Gnosticism According to the Gnostics. Journal of Early Christian Studies.
2014
- Burns, D. M. (2014). Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism . (Divinations). University of Pennsylvania Press.
2010
- Burns, D. M. (2010). Apophatic Strategies in Allogenes (NHC XI,3). Harvard Theological Review.
2020
- Burns, D. M. (2020). Jewish Sapiential Traditions in the Nag Hammadi Library. In S. Adams, & M. Goff (Eds.), The Wiley- Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature (pp. 412–428). Wiley-Blackwell.
- Burns, D. M. (2020). Providence and Evil. In The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Philosophy
Media appearance
- Burns, D. (29-03-2024). Proclus the Successor [Web] ‘Secret History of Western Esotericism’ podcast (. Proclus the Successor. https://shwep.net/podcast/dylan-burns-on-proclus-the-successor/
Journal editor
- Burns, D. (editor) (2020-2030). Aries (Journal).
- Burns, D. (editor) (2018-2023). Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies (Journal).
- Burns, D. (editor) (2015-2025). Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies (Journal).
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Ancillary activities
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Burns, D. (2023). [Review of: D.G. Robertson (2022) Gnosticism and the History of Religions]. Reading Religion.