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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مؤلفون آخرون: Thomassen, Einar., Bull, Christian H., Lied, Liv Ingeborg., Turner, John Douglas.

التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني

اللغة: English
French

منشور في: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

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

الموضوعات:

Nag Hammadi codices.

Mystery.

Gnostic literature > History and criticism.

Gnosticism.