Mental Perception : A Commentary on NHC, VI, 4, The Concept of Our Great Power /

This book is a new edition and translation of the Nag Hammadi tractate, The Concept of Our Great Power , with introduction and commentary. It suggests that the tractate is composite, and that its basis was a non-Christian Gnostic apocalyptic work whose background may have been Samaritan, and which e...

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Main Author: Williams, Frank (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2001.

Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies ; 51.

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Call Number: BT1392.C652

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Introduction /
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  • Abbreviations and Short Titles /
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  • Policies /
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  • Text and Translation /
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  • Commentary /
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  • Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium 6.9.3-18.7 (HSim) and 5.9.5-6 (HRef Naas) /
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  • Other Notices of the Simonians and Their Teaching /
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  • The Authenticity of Hippolytus' Simonian Sources /
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  • HSim as a Simonian Source /
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  • Cherix's (1982) Perception of the Organization of GrP /
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  • Non-Sahidic Linguistic Features of Our "Non-Christian" and "Christian Instructions" /
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  • Analogs of the Simonian Ennoia in Other Literatures /
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  • "Power" or "Great Power" as a Divine Title /
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  • Samaritan Use of the Term, "Our Power" /
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  • Works Consulted /
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  • Index of Citations /
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  • Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies /
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