Light on Creation

I. The Middle- and Neoplatonic Tradition
Mauro Bonazzi: Middle Platonists on the Eternity of the Universe - Sarah Klitenic Wear: The Position and Function of the Demiurge in Syrianus's Cosmos - Lorenzo Ferroni: Proclus, in Timaeum , II, 340.14-341.24 Diehl. Some Textual Remarks - Gerd Van Riel: How Can the Perceptible World be Perceptible? Proclus on the Causes of Perceptibility

II. The Christian Tradition
David C. DeMarco: Basil of Caesarea's Exegesis of the Heavens in Homiliae in hexaemeron 3 - Volker Henning Drecoll: The Use of Scripture in Basil's Homilies in Hexaemeron - Samuel Pomeroy: Representing the Jews: John Chrysostom's Use of Exegetical and Theological Traditions for Gen 1:26a ( In Gen. hom. 8) - David L. Dusenbury: Judaic Authority in Nemesius of Emesa's De natura hominis (390 CE) - Benjamin Gleede: Christian Apologetics or Confessional Polemics? Context and Motivation of Philoponus' De opificio mundi - Paul M. Blowers: From Nonbeing to Eternal Well-Being: Creation ex nihilo in the Cosmology and Soteriology of Maximus the Confessor - Clement Kuehn: Christ Hero. An Epic Commentary on Creation - Dimitrios Zaganas: The Debate on Gen 1:1-3 According to Anastasius Sinaita's Hexaemeron

III. Some Other Voices
Gregory E. Sterling: "The Most Perfect Work": The Role of Matter in Philo of Alexandria - Claudio Moreschini: Calcidius between Creatio Ex Nihilo and Platonism - Gerard P. Luttikhuizen: Gnostic Views on the Origin and the Nature of the Universe