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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 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.

Gnostic literature --- Hermeneutics. --- Salvation --- Soul --- Gnosticism --- Interpretation, Methodology of --- Criticism --- History and criticism. --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- History of doctrines. --- Exegesis on the Soul --- Gospel of Philip --- Bible. --- Coptic Gospel of Philip --- Gospel according to Philip --- Exegesis about the Being --- Exēgēsis etve ti-psychē --- Exegesis of the Soul --- Expository treatise on the Soul --- Language, style. --- Theology. --- Hermeneutics --- Gnostic literature - History and criticism --- Salvation - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca 30-600 --- Soul - History of doctrines

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Hermeneutics --- Gnostic literature --- Salvation --- Soul --- History and criticism --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Gospel of Philip --- Exegesis on the Soul --- Language, style --- Theology --- 273.1*35 --- 229*41 --- Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi; Codex Jung; Evangelium veritatis --- Apocriefe evangeliën van Barnabas, Bartholomaeus, Philippus, Nicodemus, Matias, Jozef de timmerman, van de Ebionieten, de Hebreeën, de Egyptenaren --- Exegesis about the Being --- Exēgēsis etve ti-psychē --- Exegesis of the Soul --- Expository treatise on the Soul --- Bible. --- Coptic Gospel of Philip --- Gospel according to Philip --- Language, style. --- Theology. --- Theolgy. --- 273.1*35 Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi; Codex Jung; Evangelium veritatis --- Interpretation, Methodology of --- Criticism --- Gnosticism

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Since their discovery in 1945, the significance of the texts contained in the thirteen papyrus manuscripts now known as the Nag Hammadi Codices has been fiercely debated. In the history of scholarship, the texts have primarily been analyzed in light of the contexts of their hypothetical Greek originals, which in a majority of cases have been thought to have been authored in the second and third centuries CE in a variety of contexts. The articles in this volume take a different approach. Instead of focusing on hypothetical originals, they ask how the texts may have been used and understood by those who read the Coptic papyrus codices in which the texts have been preserved and take as their point of departure recent research indicating that these manuscripts were produced and used by early Egyptian monastics. It is shown that the reading habits and theological ideas attested historically for Upper Egyptian monasticism in the fourth and fifth centuries resonate well with several of the texts within the Nag Hammadi Codices.

Manuscripts (Papyri) --- Monastic and religious life --- History --- Nag Hammadi codices --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Religion --- Religion / Biblical Studies --- Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament

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"This volume showcases the new trend in scholarship to treat the Nag Hammadi Codices as sources for Christianity and monasticism in late antique Egypt rather than for Gnosticism. The essays situate the Nag Hammadi Codices and their texts in the context of late antique Egypt, treating such topics as Coptic readers and readings, the difficulty of dating early Greek and Coptic manuscripts, scribal practices, the importance of heavenly ascent, asceticism, and instruction in Egyptian monastic culture, the relationship of the texts to the Origenist controversy and Manichaeism, the continuity of mythical traditions in later Coptic literature, and issues relating to the codices' production and burial. Most of the essays were originally presented at the conference "The Nag Hammadi Codices in the Context of Fourth- and Fifth-Century Christianity in Egypt," organized by the ERC-financed project New Contexts for Old Texts: Unorthodox Texts and Monastic Manuscript Culture in Fourth- and Fifth-Century Egypt (NEWCONT), at the University of Oslo in December 2013."--

273.1*35 --- 273.1*35 Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi; Codex Jung; Evangelium veritatis --- Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi; Codex Jung; Evangelium veritatis --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Monasticism and religious orders. --- Nag Hammadi codices --- Nag Hammadi codices. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Egypt --- Egypt. --- Church history --- Nag Hammadi

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Religious studies --- Sociology of religion