• Hermetism
• Hellenistic religions
• Egyptian religion

Academic article

• Christian Bull (2023). The Sophia of the Greeks and the Gnosis of the Barbarians: Trajectories of Thunder (NHC VI,2) from Egypt to Eve. (external link)
• Christian Hervik Bull (2018). Wicked Angels and the Good Demon: The Origins of Alchemy According to the Physica of Hermes. (external link)
• Christian Hervik Bull (2017). Monkey Business: Magical Vowels and Cosmic Levels in the Discourse on the Eighth and the Ninth (NHC VI,6). (external link)
• Christian Bull (2011). Gjenfødelse som innvielse i Hermes' vei. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2022). The Coptic Translation of Epiphanius of Salamis's Ancoratus and the Origenist Controversy in Upper Egypt. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2021). Prophesying the Demise of Egyptian Religion in Late Antiquity : The Perfect Discourse and Antoninus in Canopus. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2007). Individuell og kollektiv beskyttelse i den hermetiske teksten Den perfekte diskurs. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Laura Feldt; Christian Bull et al. (2025). Religion as a Social Kind? Reflections on Stanley Stowers’s New Realist Theory and the Study of Ancient Mediterranean Religion. (external link)
• Einar Thomassen; Alexandros Tsakos; Christian Hervik Bull et al. (2013). A New Edition of the Wizz Codex with an English Translation. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2015). Ancient hermetism and esotericism. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Ingvild S. Gilhus; Christian Bull et al. (2023). A Normative Turn in the Study of Religions?: Reflections on Richard Miller's Why Study Religion?. (external link)
• Christian Hervik Bull (2017). Visionary Experience and Ritual Realism in the Ascent of the Discourse on the Eighth and the Ninth (NHC VI,6). (external link)
• Christian Bull (2025). Hermes Medicus: Astral Healing in the Technical Hermetica. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Christian Bull (2016). No End to Sacrifice in Hermetism. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2025). Hermetic Books Known Only by Title: Scrolls, Stelae, and the Egyptian Total Library. (external link)
• Christian Bull; Alexander Kocar (2023). The Acts of Andrew and Paul (CANT 239): A New Edition with an Introduction, Translation, and Notes. (external link)
• Christian Hervik Bull (2017). Women, Angels, and Dangerous Knowledge: The Myth of the Watchers in the Apocryphon of John and Its Monastic Manuscript-Context. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2020). The Panopolis Connection: the Pachomian Federation as Context for the Nag Hammadi Codices.. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2012). The Notion of Mysteries in the Formation of Hermetic Tradition. (external link)
• Christian Hervik Bull (2018). Hermes between Pagans and Christians in Fourth Century Egypt: The Nag Hammadi Hermetica in Context. (external link)
• Christian Bull; Hugo Lundhaug (2023). Monastic Readings of the Nag Hammadi Codices. (external link)
• Christian Hervik Bull (2017). An Origenistic Reading of Plato in Nag Hammadi Codex VI. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2021). ‘Only in Egypt did these Great Signs Appear’: Egyptian and Hermetic motifs in On the Origin of the World (NHC II,5). (external link)
• Christian Bull (2023). Self-Knowledge as Alienation and Unification in the Hermetica. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2019). The Great Demon of the Air and the Punishment of Souls: The Perfect Discourse (NHC VI,8) and Hermetic and Monastic Demonologies. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2023). Plato in Upper Egypt: Greek Philosophy and Monastic Origenism in the Coptic Excerpt from Plato’s Republic (NHC VI,5). (external link)

Editorial/Leader article

• Gina Dahl; Christian Bull (2009). Forord. (external link)
• Christian Bull; Pål Steiner (2010). Ikonoklasme 3. (external link)

Book anthology

• Hugo Lundhaug; Christian Bull (2023). The Nag Hammadi Codices as Monastic Books. (external link)
• Christian Bull; Liv Ingeborg Lied; John D Turner (2012). Mystery and secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and other ancient Literature: ideas and practices : studies for Einar Thomassen at sixty. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Christian Bull (2019). Teaching and Extraordinary Experiences in Hermetism. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2019). Hermes Trismegistus in the Platonic Chain of John of Stobi. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2019). From the City to the Desert: Panopolis and the Pachomian federation as context for the Nag Hammadi Codices. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2019). The Panopolis Connection: the Pachomian federation as context for the Nag Hammadi Codices. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2019). Stobaeus and Hermes Trismegistus in the Neoplatonic Tradition. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2011). The Tripartite tractate. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2011). Hemmelig tekst: Fra nedgravde steintavler til bestselger i pocketformat. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2011). The Gospel of Truth. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2011). Guder. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2019). Epiphanius’ Ancoratus in Coptic. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2011). Pure Philosophy and Sacrifice in the Books of Hermes. (external link)

Radio or TV participation

• Eldar Heide; Christian Bull (2024). Episode 72. Gresk-romersk, norrøn og samisk religion i kontrast til kristendomen. Samtale med religionshistorikar Christian Hervik Bull. (external link)

Introduction

• Christian Bull; Liv Ingeborg Lied; John D Turner (2012). Foreword. (external link)

Journal review

• Christian Bull (2016). Joel Kalvesmaki, The Theology of Arithmetic: Number Symbolism in Platonism and Early Christianity. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2009). Anmeldelse av "Mellem venner og fjender. En folkebog om Judasevangeliet, tidlig kristendom og gnosis," Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Jesper Hyldahl og Einar Thomassen (red.). Forlaget Anis, København 2008. (external link)
• Christian Hervik Bull (2016). Pascale Derron (ed.), Cosmologies et cosmogonies dans la littérature antique. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2015). Gavin Flood, The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in Our Strange World. (external link)
• Christian Hervik Bull (2012). The Arabic Hermes: From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science. By Kevin van Bladel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. (external link)
• Christian Bull (2015). Hermes Christianus: The Intermingling of Hermetic Piety and Christian Thought, by Claudio Moreschini. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Christian Hervik Bull (2014). The Tradition of Hermes: The Egyptian Priestly Figure as a Teacher of Hellenized Wisdom. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Christian Bull (2022). Hermetism. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Christian Hervik Bull (2018). The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus: The Egyptian Priestly Figure as a Teacher of Hellenized Wisdom. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

• Articles

  • "The Notion of Mysteries in the Formation of Hermetic Tradition," pages 399-426 in Mystery and Secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and Other Ancient Literature: Ideas and Practices. Studies for Einar Thomassen at Sixty (ed. Christian H. Bull, Liv I. Lied og John D. Turner; NHMS 76; Leiden: Brill, 2012).
  • "Gjenfødelse som innvielse i Hermes' vei," DÎN: Ingvild Gilhus 1-2 (2011): 7-21.
  • "Individuell og kollektiv beskyttelse i den hermetiske teksten Den perfekte diskurs," Chaos 47 (2007):9-25

  Books

  • Hermes Trismegistos: Gresk-egyptiske visdomstekster. Oslo: Bokklubben 2010

  Reviews

  • Kevin van Bladel, The Arabic Hermes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), Numen (forthcoming).
  • Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Jesper Hyldahl og Einar Thomassen (red.). Mellem venner og fjender. En folkebog om Judasevangeliet, tidlig kristendom og gnosis," (Forlaget Anis, København 2008). Religionsvidenskabeligt tidsskrift 54 (2009): 103-108.

  Editor

  • Mystery and Secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and Other Ancient Literature: Ideas and Practices. Studies for Einar Thomassen at Sixty (NHMS 76; Leiden: Brill, 2012), with Liv Ingeborg Lied og John D. Turner.
  • DÎN: Ikonoklasme 3-4 (2010), with Pål Steiner.
  • DÎN: Esoterisme 2-3 (2009), with Gina Dahl