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Christian Bull is a post-doctoral researcher for the project NEWCONT (New Contexts for Old Texts: Unorthodox Texts and Monastic Manuscript Culture in Fourth- and Fifth-Century Egypt) at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Theology. The project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) / ERC Grant Agreement no. 283741. Bull received his PhD 2014 in religious studies with his thesis “The Tradition of Hermes: The Egyptian Priestly Figure as a Teacher of Hellenized Wisdom.” His research interests are ancient religions, Egyptian religions, early Christianity, Gnosticism and theory of the study of religions. He has published on Hermetism, most recently in Secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and Other Ancient Literature: Ideas and Practices (2012), co-edited with L. I. Lied and J. D. Turner.