Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition

John D. Turner's Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition, published jointly by Presses de l'Universite Laval and Peeters in 2001, is a major peer reviewed scholarly study of the relationship between Sethian Gnostic texts, largely known through the Nag Hammadi library, and the Platonic philosophical tradition. Its authority rests on standard academic press review and Turner's standing as one of the leading specialists in Nag Hammadi studies. It reconstructs an intellectual relationship between two ancient traditions on the basis of fragmentary and sometimes ambiguous surviving texts, a kind of reconstruction that remains an active area of ongoing scholarly discussion rather than a fully settled account.