"Professor Grant's lectures mark an advance in the study of Gnosticism as decisive as those of Burkitt thirty years ago. From his own studies of the Nag-Hammadi and the Q'mran documents he has come to the conclusion that Gnosticism was mainly the result of the breakdown of Jewish apocalyptic hopes following the fall of Jerusalem in 70.... Professor Grant's book is a great service to scholarship. Its value may be com- pared with C. H. Dodd's masterly The Bible and the Greeks." -W. H. C. FREND, The Modern Churchman (Oxford) "In the past few years renewed attention has been paid to Gnosticism, portly owing to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but more owing to the discovery of the Nag-Hammadi texts, This excellent and scholarly work is therefore assured of a warm welcome. In it the author examines the nature of Gnosticism, and the innumerable forms it fook in the systems of its various leaders, and considers its relation to the thought of the Qumran sectaries and the Early Church.... "Dr. Grant studies the conflict of the Early Church