I am very sorry to relay the following news from Jack Sasson's Agade list:
From a subscriber to the biblical-studies@yahoogroups.com:Requiescat in pace.
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Dutch newspapers are reporting the death yesterday of Gilles Quispel (May 30, 1916) the Gnostic scholar and emeritus professor of Early Christianity at Utrecht. He died of pneumonia, reportedly in an Egyptian hospital.
For information about him, see the Dutch Wikipedia, where his death is also reported.
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Quispel.
Professor Quispel was almost 90 years old. And as I noted here recently, another renowned specialist in Gnosticism, R. McL. Wilson, just celebrated his 90th birthday. It seems that Gnosis is good not only for the soul, but also for the constitution.
UPDATE: J. P. van de Giessen has a long post about Quispel in Dutch at the Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel blog. (Via a comment at Hypotyposeis.)
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