Mystery and secrecy in the Nag Hammadi collection and other ancient literature : ideas and practices : studies for Einar Thomassen at sixty /

Mystery and secrecy in the Nag Hammadi collection and other ancient literature : ideas and practices : studies for Einar Thomassen at sixty /

Mystery and secrecy were central concepts in the ritual, rhetoric, and sociological stratification of antique Mediterranean religions. That the ultimate nature and workings of the divine were secret, and either could not or should not be revealed except as a mystery for the initiated, was widely acc...

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Other Authors: Thomassen, Einar., Bull, Christian H., Lied, Liv Ingeborg., Turner, John Douglas.

Format: eBook

Language: English
French

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 76.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223226.

Subjects:

Nag Hammadi codices.
Mystery.
Gnostic literature > History and criticism.
Gnosticism.
Manichaeism.

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Call Number: BT1391 .M97 2012

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • From the Bowels of Hell to Draco: The Mysteries of the Peratics /
  • April D. DeConick
  • Interpretation d'une formule barbare chez les gnostiques valentiniens d'apres le Contre les hérésies d'Irenee, I, 21,3 /
  • Jean-Daniel Dubois and Flavia Ruani
  • Mystery and Secrecy in The Secret Revelation of John /
  • Karen L. King
  • Sethian Books of the Nag Hammadi Library as Secret Books /
  • Antti Marjanen
  • ≪Joseph le charpentier planta un jardin . . .≫ (EvPhil 73,8-9) Sens apparent et sens cache dans l'Évangile selon Philippe /
  • Louis Painchaud
  • Invocation et glorification du Nom divin dans le Livre sacré du grand Esprit invisible ou Évangile égyptien (NHC III,2; NHC IV,2) /
  • Anne Pasquier
  • The Term μυστήριον in Coptic-Manichaean Texts /
  • Nils Arne Pedersen
  • Secrets et révélation dans le codex Tchacos /
  • Madeleine Scopello
  • I Tell You a Mystery: From Hidden to Revealed in Sethian Revelation, Ritual, and Protology /
  • John D. Turner
  • Mystery and Secrecy in the Egyptian Desert: Esotericism and Evagrius of Pontus /
  • David Brakke
  • Secrecy in the Gospel of John /
  • Ismo Dunderberg
  • Living in Tombs: The Secret of an Early Christian Mystical Experience /
  • Dimitris J. Kyrtatas
  • Mystery and Authority in the Writings of Shenoute /
  • Hugo Lundhaug
  • Mystery and Secrecy in Paul /
  • Birger A. Pearson
  • Mystere et mysteres dans les Actes de Thomas /
  • Paul-Hubert Poirier
  • Revisiting the Ichthys: A Suggestion Concerning the Origins of Christological Fish Symbolism /
  • Tuomas Rasimus
  • Secrecy and Initiation in the Mithraic Communities of Fourth Century Rome /
  • Jonas Bjornebye
  • Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries: A "Thin" Description /
  • Jan N. Bremmer
  • The Notion of Mysteries in the Formation of Hermetic Tradition /
  • Christian H. Bull
  • Those Who Know and Those Who Don't: Mystery, Instruction, and Knowledge in 2 Baruch /
  • Liv Ingeborg Lied
  • The "Mithras Liturgy" as Mystery and Magic /
  • Marvin Meyer
  • The Secret Hymn in Hermetic Texts /
  • Jørgen Podemann Sørensen
  • Cognitive and Evolutionary Approaches to Ancient Rituals: Reflections on Recent Theories and Their Relevance for the Historian of Religion /
  • Risto Uro
  • Index of Ancient Literary Sources
  • Index of Keywords.