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 /

Drawing on a wide array of sources, this anthology sets out to analyze the concepts of mystery and secrecy that occur in the ritual and rhetoric of antique Mediterranean religion, with an emphasis on Gnosticism, Christianity, and Paganism.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Thomassen, Einar, Bull, Christian H., Lied, Liv Ingeborg, Turner, John Douglas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012
Series:Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 76.
Subjects:
Nag Hammadi codices.
Mystery.
Secrecy > Religious aspects.
Gnostic literature > History and criticism.
Gnosticism.
Manichaeism.
Festschriften.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Mystery and secrecy in the Nag Hammadi and related Gnostic writings. From the bowels of Hell to Draco : the mysteries of the Peratics / April D. DeConick
  • Interprétation d'une formule barbare chez les gnostiques valentiniens d'après le Contre les hérésies d'Irénée, I, 21,3 / Jean-Daniel Dubois, 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 caché 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 [mysterion] 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.
  • pt. 2. Mystery and secrecy in other Christian practices, text traditions, and material culture. 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
  • Mystère et mystères dans les Actes de Thomas / Paul-Hubert Poirier
  • Revisiting the Ichthys : a suggestion concerning the origins of Christological fish symbolism / Tuomas Rasimus.
  • pt. 3. Mystery and secrecy in non-Christian practices, text traditions, and material culture. Secrecy and initiation in the Mithraic communities of fourth century Rome / Jonas Bjørnebye
  • 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.

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