Heracleon wrote the earliest surviving
commentary on any portion of the New Testament, and is an important witness to
the state of the text of John in the second century. Here is some bibliography
to get you started:
A. E. Brooke, The Fragments of Heracleon:
Newly Edited from the MSS. With an Introduction and Notes (T&S vol. 1,
No. 4; Cambridge: CUP, 1891).
C. Blanc, Origène: Commentaire sur S. Jean:
Introduction, Text Critique, Traduction et Notes (5 vols.; SC 120, 15, 222,
290, 385; Paris: Cerf, 1966–1992)
ET: W. Foerster, Gnosis: A Selection of
Gnostic Texts (trans. R. McL. Wilson; 2 vols.; Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1972-1974), 1:162-83.
R.E. Heine, Origen, Commentary on the
Gospel of John (Fathers of the Church 80 & 89; Washington: Catholic University
of America Press, 1989, 1993).
J. A. McGuckin, ‘Structural Design and
Apologetic Intent in Origen’s Commentary on John’ in Origeniana Sexta (ed. G.
Dorival et al.; BETL 118; Louvain: Peeters, 1995), 441–457.
R. P. C. Hanson, Allegory and Event: A
Study of the Sources and Significance of Origen's Interpretation of Scripture
(Richmond VA: John Knox, 1959)
B. Aland, ‘Erwählungstheologie und
Menschenklassenlehre: Die Theologie des Herakleon als Schlüssel zum Verständnis
der christlichen Gnosis?’ in Gnosis and Gnosticism (ed. Martin Krause; NHS 8;
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1977), 148-81.
H. W Attridge, ‘Heracleon and John:
Reassessment of an Early Christian Hermeneutical Debate’ in Biblical
Interpretation: History, Context, Reality (ed. C. Helmer; Atlanta, Ga.: Society
of Biblical Literature, 2005), 57–72; reprinted in Essays on John and Hebrews (WUNT 264;
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010), 193-207.
H.W. Attridge, ‘Invention, Rewriting,
Usurpation: The Case of the Johannine Gospel in the Second Century’ Invention,
Rewriting, Usurpation: discursive fights over religious traditions in Antiquity
(eds. J. Ulrich, A.-C. Jacobsen, D. Brakke; ECCA 11; Frankfurt am Main: Peter
Lang, 2012), 1-17.
C.P. Bammel, ‘Herakleon’, TRE XV (1986)
54-57 = ‘Herakleon’ in Tradition and Exegesis in Early Christian Writers
(Ashgate, Hampshire: Variorum, 1995), 1-8.
A. Bastit, ‘Form et méthode du Commentaire
sur Jean d’Héracléon’ Adamantius 15 (2009), 150-176.
P.F. Beatrice, ‘Greek Philosophy and
Gnostic Soteriology in Heracleon’s “Hypomnemata”’ Early Christianity 3 (2012),
188-214.
D. Domenico, ‘Remarques sur l’anthropologie
d’Héracléon: les psychiques’ Studia Patristica XVI (ed. E.A. Livingstone;
Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1985), 143-151.
B.D. Ehrman, ‘Heracleon and the “Western”
Textual Tradition’ NTS 40 (1994), 161-179.
B.D. Ehrman, ‘Heracleon, Origen, and the
Text of the Fourth Gospel’ Vig. Chr. 47 (1993), 105-118.
C. E. Hill, The Johannine Corpus in the
Early Church (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 207-211.
Y. Janssens, ‘Héracléon: Commentaire sur
l’Évangile selon S. Jean’ Le Muséon 72 (1959), 101-151; 277-299.
Y. Janssens, ‘L’Épisode de la Samaritaine
chez Héracléon’ Sacra Pagina: Miscellanea Biblica Congressus Internationalis
Catholici de Re Biblica (ed. J. Coppens; BETL 17-18; Paris: J. Gabalda, 1959)
77-85.
K. Keefer, The Branches of the Gospel of
John: The Reception of the Fourth Gospel in the Early Church (LNTS 332; London:
Continuum, 2006), 32-43.
J. Mouson, ‘Jean-Baptiste dans les
fragments d’ Héracléon’ ETL 30 (1954), 301-322.
E. Mühlenberg, ‘Wieviel Erlösungen kennt
der Gnostiker Herakleon’ ZNW 66 (1975), 170-93.
T. Nagel, Die Rezeption des
Johannesevangeliums im 2. Jahrhundert: Studien zur vorirenäischen Aneignung und
Auslegung des vierten Evangeliums in christlicher und christlich-gnostischer
Literatur (ABG 2; Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2000), 315-341.
E. Pagels, The Johannine Gospel in Gnostic
Exegesis: Heracleon's commentary on John (SBLMS 17; Nashville, Tenn: Abingdon,
1973).
S.R. Pickering, ‘Recovering Second-Century
Readings of the Gospel of John: Heracleon’s Text as Quoted by Origen’ New
Testament Textual Research Update 2 (1994), 52-56.
Jean-Michel Poffet, La méthode exégétique
d’Héracléon et d’Origène, Commentateurs de Jn 4: Jésus, la Samaritaine et les
Samaritains (Fribourg: Universitaites Fribourge Suisse, 1985).
M. Simonetti, ‘Eracleone e Origene’ Vetera
Christianorum 3 (1966), 111-141 & 4 (1967), 23-64.
E. Thomassen, ‘Heracleon’ in The Legacy of
John: Second-Century Reception of the Fourth Gospel (ed. Tuomas Rasimus;
NovTSup 132; Leiden: Brill, 2009), 173-210.
J.A. Trumbower, ‘Origen’s Exegesis of John
8:19-53: The Struggle with Heracleon over the idea of Fixed Natures’ Vig. Chr.
43 (1989), 138-154.
A. Wucherpfennig, Heracleon Philologus:
Gnostische Johannesexegese im zweiten Jahrhundert (WUNT 142; Tübingen: Mohr
Siebeck, 2002).
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