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Pleše, Z. “Bible et la littérature gnostique." In S. Parizet (ed.): La Bible dans les littératures du monde. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2016, vol. 1, 1034-1038.
Aufrère, S.H., P. A. Alexander, and Z. Pleše (eds.). On the Fringe of Commentary: Objectives and Strategies of Metatextuality in Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Cultures. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. Leuven-Paris: Peeters, 2015.
Pleše, Z. and A. Lange. “Derveni-Alexandria-Qumran: Transpositional Hermeneutics in Jewish and Greek Culture.” In S.H. Aufrère, P.A. Alexander, and Z. Pleše (eds.): On the Fringe of Commentary: Objectives and Strategies of Metatextuality in Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Cultures. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. Leuven-Paris: Peeters, 2015, pp. 89-160.
Pleše, Z. “Evil and Its Sources in Gnostic Traditions.” In F. Jourdan and R. Hirsch-Luipold (eds.): Die Wurzel allen Übels. Vorstellungen über die Herkunft des Übels und des Bösen in der Literatur des 1.-4. Jahrhunderts. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2014, pp. 93-125.
Pleše, Z. and A. Lange. “Text between Religious Cultures: Intertextuality in Hellenistic Judaism." In M, Bauks, W. Horowitz, and A. Lange (eds.): Between Text and Text: The Hermeneutics of Intertextuality in Ancient Cultures and Their Afterlife in Medieval and Modern Times. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, pp. 328-350.
Pleše, Z. and B.D. Ehrman, eds. and trans.The Other Gospels: Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament. Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.sd
Pleše, Z. “Intertextuality and Conceptual Blending in the Apocryphon of John.” Adamantius 18 (2012) 32-49.
Pleše, Z. and A. Lange. “Transpositional Hermeneutics: A Hermeneutical Comparison of the Derveni Papyrus, Aristobulus of Alexandria, and the Qumran Pesharim.” Journal of Ancient Judaism 3 (2012) 14-66.
Pleše, Z. and A. Lange. “The Qumran Pesharim and the Derveni Papyrus: Transpositional Hermeneutics in Ancient Jewish and Greek Commentaries.” In A. Lange, E. Tov, and M. Weigold (eds.) in association with B.H. Reynolds III: The Dead Sea Scrolls in Context: Integrating the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Study of Ancient Texts, Languages, and Cultures. 2 vols, VTS 140.1-2. Leiden: Brill, 2011, vol. 1, pp. 895-922.
Pleše, Z. “Plato and Parmenides in Agreement: Ammonius’s Praise of God as One-Being in Plutarch’s The E at Delphi.” In J.M. Turner and K. Corrigan (eds.): Plato’s Parmenides: History and Interpretation from Speusippus to Plotinus and Later Neoplatonism (4th C BCE-6th C CE), Writings from the Greco-Roman World. Atlanta-Leiden: SBL Publications and Brill Academic Publishers, 2010, pp. 93-113.
Pleše, Z. and B.D. Ehrman. 2010. The Apocryphal Gospels, edited and translated. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
Pleše, Z. 2009. “Gnostic Literature.” In M. von Albrecht, H. Görgemanns und R. Hirsch-Luipold (eds.): Religiöse Philosophie und philosophische Religion der früher Kaiserzeit. Literaturgeschichtliche Perspektiven. Ratio Religionis Studien 1. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 163-198.
Pleše, Z. 2007. Fate, Providence and Astrology in Gnosticism. MHNH 7: 237-268.
Pleše, Z. 2006. Poetics of the Gnostic Universe: Narrative and Cosmology in the Apocryphon of John. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies vol. 52. Leiden: Brill.
Pleše, Z. 2005. “Platonist Orientalism.” In A. Pérez Jiménez and F. Titchener (eds.): Historical and Biographical Values of Plutarch’s Works. Studies devoted to Professor Philip Stadter by the International Plutarch Society. Leuven/Madrid, pp. 245-271.