TY - BOOK ID - 77936274 TI - Images of rebirth PY - 2010 SN - 1283160692 9786613160690 9004216502 9789004216501 9781283160698 9789004180260 9004180265 6613160695 PB - Leiden Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Gnostic literature KW - Hermeneutics. KW - Salvation KW - Soul KW - Gnosticism KW - Interpretation, Methodology of KW - Criticism KW - History and criticism. KW - Christianity KW - History of doctrines KW - History of doctrines. KW - Exegesis on the Soul KW - Gospel of Philip KW - Bible. KW - Coptic Gospel of Philip KW - Gospel according to Philip KW - Exegesis about the Being KW - Exēgēsis etve ti-psychē KW - Exegesis of the Soul KW - Expository treatise on the Soul KW - Language, style. KW - Theology. KW - Hermeneutics KW - Gnostic literature - History and criticism KW - Salvation - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca 30-600 KW - Soul - History of doctrines UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77936274 AB - 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 Christian compositions contemporary with the production and use of the Nag Hammadi Codices. A methodological framework based on Cognitive Poetics is outlined and applied to illuminate how the texts present a soteriology of transformation through religious rituals and practices using complex conceptual and intertextual blends with important polemical and paraenetic functions. The analysis highlights the use of metaphors and allusions in (re-)interpretations of authoritative Scripture, ritual and dogma. Complete Coptic texts and translations are included. ER -