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Mystery and secrecy in the Nag Hammadi collection and other ancient literature : ideas and practices : studies for Einar Thomassen at sixty / edited by Christian H. Bull, Liv Ingeborg Lied, and John D. Turner.
LIBRA BT1391 .M97 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; v. 76.
- Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; v. 76
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nag Hammadi codices.
- Gnostic literature--History and criticism.
- Gnostic literature.
- Gnosticism.
- Manichaeism.
- Mystery.
- Secrecy.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 540 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
- Summary:
- Scholars of religion from Europe and North America explore mystery and secrets in the Nag Hammadi and related Gnostic writings and in Christian and other practices, texts, and material culture. The 23 essays in this collection include discussions of mystery and secrecy in The Secret Revelation of John, the Sethian books of the Nag Hammadi library as secret books, esotericism and Evagrius of Pontus in the Egyptian desert, the secret of an early Christian mystical experience, mystery and secrecy in Paul, a suggestion on the origins of Christological fish symbolism, initiation into the Eleusinian mysteries, the Mithras Liturgy as mystery and magic, and the secret hymn in Hermetic texts. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004212077
- 9004212078
- OCLC:
- 745428737
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