TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bull,Christian H.
AU  - Lied,Liv Ingeborg
AU  - Thomassen,Einar
AU  - Turner,John Douglas
TI  - Mystery and secrecy in the Nag Hammadi collection and other ancient literature: ideas and practices : studies for Einar Thomassen at sixty 
T2  - Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies
SN  - 9004212078 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - BT1391 .M97 2012
U1  - 229/.9 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Nag Hammadi codices
KW  - Gnostic literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Gnosticism
KW  - Manichaeism
KW  - Mystery
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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; Interprétation d'une formule barbare chez les gnostiques valentiniens d'après le Contre les hérésies d'Irénée, I, 21,3; Mystery and secrecy in The secret revelation of John; Sethian books of the Nag Hammadi library as secret books; "Joseph le charpentier planta un jardin ... " (EvPhil 73,8-9) : Sens apparent et sens caché dans l'Évangile selon Philippe; Invocation et glorification du Nom divin dans le Livre sacré du grand Esprit invisible ou Évangile égyptien (NHC III,2; NHC IV,2); The term [mysterion] in Coptic-Manichaean texts; Secrets et révélation dans le codex Tchacos; I tell you a mystery : from hidden to revealed in Sethian revelation, ritual, and protology; April D. DeConick --; Jean-Daniel Dubois; Flavia Ruani --; Karen L. King --; Antti Marjanen --; Louis Painchaud --; Anne Pasquier --; Nils Arne Pedersen --; Madeleine Scopello --; 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; Secrecy in the gospel of John; Living in tombs : the secret of an early Christian mystical experience; Mystery and authority in the writings of Shenoute; Mystery and secrecy in Paul; Mystère et mystères dans les Actes de Thomas; Revisiting the Ichthys : a suggestion concerning the origins of Christological fish symbolism; David Brakke --; Ismo Dunderberg --; Dimitris J. Kyrtatas --; Hugo Lundhaug --; Birger A. Pearson --; Paul-Hubert Poirier --; 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; Initiation into the Eleusinian mysteries : a "thin" description; The notion of mysteries in the formation of hermetic tradition; Those who know and those who don't : mystery, instruction, and knowledge in 2 Baruch; The 'Mithras liturgy" as mystery and magic; The secret hymn in hermetic texts; Cognitive and evolutionary approaches to ancient rituals : reflections on recent theories and their relevance for the historian of religion; Jonas Bjørnebye --; Jan N. Bremmer --; Christian H. Bull --; Liv Ingeborg Lied --; Marvin Meyer --; Jørgen Podemann Sørensen --; Risto Uro; Available to subscribing member institutions only
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004215122
ER  -