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Books of Jeu and the Pistis Sophia as Handbooks to Eternity
Exploring the Gnostic Mysteries of the Ineffable
Av Erin Evans
Inbunden, 2015
2400 kr
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Despite the surge of interest in Gnostic texts following the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library, the Coptic Books of Jeu and Pistis Sophia remain understudied. Often dismissed as convoluted, confused, and repetitious, Erin Evans convincingly shows that these texts represent the writings of a …
Emerging from Darkness
Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources
Inbunden, 1997
3834 kr
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Modern interpretation of the Manichaean religious tradition requires a firm foundation in the sober and meticulous reconstruction of highly fragmentary sources. The studies collected in this volume contribute to such a foundation by bringing new primary texts to the public for the first time, …
Spiritual Seed — The Church of the 'Valentinians'
Inbunden, 2005
2844 kr
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This book is a comprehensive study of “Valentinianism,” the most important Gnostic Christian movement in Antiquity. It is the first attempt to make full use of the Valentinian documents from Nag Hammadi as well as the reports of the Church Fathers. The book discusses the difference between the …
Frontiers of Faith
The Christian Encounter with Manichaeism in the Acts of Archelaus
Inbunden, 2007
2400 kr
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Taking as their common subject the key early Christian anti-Manichaean work, the Acts of Archelaus (Acta Archelai), the contributors to this volume offer a systematic exploration of what the text has to tell us about inter-religious contact, conflict, and comprehension at a crucial moment in …
Gospel of Judas in Context
Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas Paris, Sorbonne, October 27th-28th, 2006
Inbunden, 2008
2489 kr
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The papers gathered in this book were presented at the First International Conference (held in Paris, University of Sorbonne, October 27th-28th 2006), devoted to the newly discovered Gospel of Judas, preserved in the 4th century Coptic Codex Tchacos. These essays explore several crucial literary, …
Nag Hammadi Bibliography 1995-2006
Inbunden, 2008
2544 kr
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This is the third volume of the immensely useful Nag Hammadi Bibliography, the first volume of which covered 1948–1969 and was the first publication in the Nag Hammadi Studies series. The second volume covered 1970–1994. This third volume provides a complete integration of Supplements II/1–II/8 to …
New Light on Manichaeism
Papers from the Sixth International Congress on Manichaeism
Av Jason BeDuhn
Inbunden, 2009
2648 kr
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New Light on Manichaeism provides the latest discoveries and insights into the Manichaean religion throughout its more than one thousand year history, ranging from glimpses into the life and thought of Mani himself, to developments in doctrine and practice in the religion's North African, Iranian, …
Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking
Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence
Inbunden, 2009
2909 kr
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This book offers a new understanding of Sethianism and the origins of Gnosticism by examining the mythology in and social reality behind a group of texts to which certain leaders of the early church occasionally attached the label ‘Ophite.’ In the unique Ophite mythology, which rewrites the Genesis …
Pentadic Redaction in the Manichaean Kephalaia
Inbunden, 2009
2464 kr
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Discovered in 1929, the Manichaean Kephalaia have opened up an important window on the early development of Manichaean doctrine. This study identifies a significant redactional tendency whereby the compilers of the text sought to clarify ambiguities in “canonical” Manichaean tradition by means of …
Valentinian Ethics and Paraenetic Discourse
Determining the Social Function of Moral Exhortation in Valentinian Christianity
Inbunden, 2009
3143 kr
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Offering a fresh assessment of the presence and function of paraenesis within Valentinianism, this book places Valentinian moral exhortation within the context of early Christian moral discourse. Like other early Christians, Valentinians were not only interested in ethics, but used moral …
Manichaeism and Its Legacy
Inbunden, 2009
3078 kr
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This volume reproduces nineteen chapters and articles published between 1991 through 2008, on Manichaeism, and its contacts with Augustine of Hippo, its most famous convert and also best-known adversary. The contents are divided into four parts: perceptions of Mani within the Roman Empire, select …
Images of Rebirth
Cognitive Poetics and Transformational Soteriology in the Gospel of Philip and the Exegesis on the Soul
Inbunden, 2010
4122 kr
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This book offers fresh readings of the Gospel of Philip (NHC II.3) and the Exegesis on the Soul (NHC II.6) from new theoretical and historical perspectives. Eschewing the category of “Gnosticism” and challenging common categorisations, the book analyses the preserved Coptic texts as coherent …
Biblical Argument in Manichaean Missionary Practice
The Case of Adimantus and Augustine
Inbunden, 2009
2400 kr
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The use and appreciation of Scripture by the Manichaeans is a field of research with many unanswered questions. This study offers an investigation into the role of the Bible in the writings of the important Manichaean missionary Addas Adimantus (flor. ca. 250 CE), one of Mani's first disciples. A …
Codex Judas Papers
Proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex Held at Rice University, Houston Texas, March 13-16, 2008
Inbunden, 2009
4382 kr
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This book contains the proceedings from the Codex Judas Congress, the first international conference held to discuss the newly-restored Tchacos Codex. Given that the Tchacos Codex is a newly-conserved ancient book of Christian manuscripts which had yet to be discussed collaboratively by a body of …
Paraphrase of Shem (NH VII,1)
Introduction, Translation and Commentary
Inbunden, 2010
2068 kr
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This book presents the first comprehensive interpretation of the Paraphrase of Shem, Codex VII,1 in the Coptic Nag Hammadi Library. The lenghty introduction discusses the literary genre of the treatise, its plan and system, its situation among the Gnostic systems, its provenance and date. The …
Mystery and Secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and Other Ancient Literature: Ideas and Practices
Studies for Einar Thomassen at Sixty
Av Christian H. Bull, Liv Lied m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
3930 kr
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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 …
La voie d’Hermès
Pratiques rituelles et traités hermétiques
Inbunden, 2012
3730 kr
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The Hermetic writings transmitted in Greek, Latin and Coptic (Corpus hermeticum, Asclepius and the three Hermetic texts in Codex VI of Nag Hammadi) are evidences of different religious trends within the Hermetic tradition, between the 2nd and the 4th centuries. These currents belong to Egyptian …
Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World
Essays in Honour of John D. Turner
Av Kevin Corrigan, Tuomas Rasimus
Inbunden, 2013
4313 kr
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This Festschrift honors the life and work of John D. Turner (Charles J. Mach University Professor of Classics and History at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln) on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Professor Turner’s work has been of profound importance for the study of the interaction between …
Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Books II and III. De Fide
Second, revised edition
Inbunden, 2012
4669 kr
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In 376 Epiphanius, chief bishop of Cyprus, published, in three Books, an historical encyclopedia of heretical sects, with the arguments, chiefly scriptural, needed to counter them, and called it the Panarion (Medicine Chest). This volume, Books II and III of the Panarion, is chiefly concerned with …
Die Bibel bei den Manichäern und verwandte Studien von Alexander Böhlig†
Av Peter Nagel, Siegfried Richter
Inbunden, 2012
2047 kr
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The Manichaen religion, which was founded by Mani in the 3rd century AD, adapted various elements from mainstream Christianity. For this reason the relationship between the texts of the two religions remains a lively topic of research today. This volume contains the until-now unpublished …
Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings
Studies on the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Codex
Av Iain Gardner, Jason D. Beduhn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2400 kr
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In Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings the authors explore evidence arising from their project to edit the Chester Beatty Kephalaia codex. This new text presents Mani at the heart of Sasanian Iran in dialogue with its sages and nobles, acting as a cultural mediator between East and West and …
Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Under Pitiless Skies
Inbunden, 2013
2374 kr
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In Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity, Nicola Denzey Lewis dismisses Hans Jonas' mischaracterization of second-century Gnosticism as a philosophically-oriented religious movement built on the perception of the cosmos as negative or enslaving. A focused study on the concept …
Augustine and Manichaean Christianity
Selected Papers from the First South African Conference on Augustine of Hippo, University of Pretoria, 24-26 April 2012
Inbunden, 2013
2257 kr
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Based on several newly discovered texts, Augustine and Manichaean Christianity provides groundbreaking discussions of the relationship between the most influential church father of the West and the religion of his formative years. Augustine’s connection with Manichaean Christians was not only …
Practicing Gnosis
Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature. Essays in Honor of Birger A. Pearson
Av April DeConick, Gregory Shaw m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
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3939 kr
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Ritual, magic, liturgy, and theurgy were central features of Gnosticism, and yet Gnostic practices remain understudied. This anthology is meant to fill in this gap and address more fully what the ancient Gnostics were doing. While previously we have studied the Gnostics as intellectuals in pursuit …
Mani in Dublin
Selected Papers from the Seventh International Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 8–12 September 2009
Av Siegfried G. Richter, Charles Horton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
3274 kr
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In 2009 the Seventh International Conference of Manichaean Studies was held at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. The 22 selected papers of this volume offer a deep insight into the faith of Manichaean communities ranging from the very beginning of the 3rd century up to the last traces of …
L’Hymnaire manichéen chinois Xiabuzan 下部讚 à l’usage des Auditeurs
Un manuscrit trouvé à Dunhuang, traduit, commenté et annoté
Av Lucie Rault
Inbunden, 2018
2818 kr
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L’Hymnaire manichéen chinois offre un ensemble de 25 hymnes destinées à la pratique de la religion manichéenne par la Section des Auditeurs. Mis au jour à Dunhuang (actuel Gansu) au début du 20ème siècle, après être resté enfoui dans une cache pendant quelque douze siècles, ce rouleau écrit en …
Valentinianism: New Studies
Inbunden, 2019
2635 kr
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Valentinianism: New Studies offers fresh contributions by leading experts on the history of the Valentinian “Gnostic” church, on contested aspects of Valentinian doctrine, and on the use and interpretation of the New Testament by the Valentinians.
Mani and Augustine
Collected Essays on Mani, Manichaeism and Augustine
Inbunden, 2020
2757 kr
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Mani and Augustine: collected essays on Mani, Manichaeism and Augustine gathers in one volume contributions on Manichaean scholarship made by the internationally renowned scholar Johannes van Oort. The first part of the book focuses on the Babylonian prophet Mani (216-277) who styled himself an …
Manichaean Church in Kellis
Social Networks and Religious Identity in Late Antique Egypt
Inbunden, 2021
2309 kr
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The Manichaean Church in Kellis presents an in-depth study of social organisation within the religious movement known as Manichaeism in Roman Egypt. In particular, it employs papyri from Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab), a village in the Dakhleh Oasis, to explore the socio-religious world of lay …
Women in Western and Eastern Manichaeism
Selected Papers from the International Conference Les femmes dans le manichéisme occidental et oriental held in Paris, University of Paris Sorbonne, 27-28 June 2014
Inbunden, 2022
2022 kr
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The exceptional place women held in Manichaeism, in everyday life or myth, is the object of this book. Relying on firsthand Manichaean texts in several languages and on polemical sources, as well as on iconography, the various papers analyze aspects of women’s social engagement by spreading Mani’s …
